Description of the attraction
Turkish baths are an architectural and urban development monument, which are listed in the List of Monuments of National and Local Significance.
The Turkish bath belongs to the unique sights of Evpatoria and is of interest also because it has existed since medieval times. The Gözlevskaya bathhouse was built by an unknown builder and has an architecture with simple forms, distinguished by a special grace. There was a high dome above the dressing room. The Turkish bath in Evpatoria is very similar in its architectural appearance to the Suleiman bath in the Cafe.
The exact time of the construction of the baths is still unknown. This date is considered to be the 16th century, which is most likely based on architectural techniques.
Turkish baths were used for their intended purpose until 1987. They are first encountered on the plan of Evpatoria in 1895 under number 21.
Turkish baths consist of women's and men's sections, located parallel to each other with adjoining rooms for heating and water supply. On the edge of the tiled roof, above the entrance doors, there were wooden sculptures depicting a man and a woman (late 18th century). To date, female sculpture is exhibited in the local history museum.
At the entrance to the bathhouse, there is a dressing room (djemkon), further, behind the low arched doors, there is a large room (sugukluk). In the men's room, in the very center, there was a so-called "stone - navel" (geybek - tash) - a square podium measuring 1.5 x1.5 m and 0.5 m high. The top of the stone is lined with slabs made of white marble. This hollow stone, heated by hot air, served as a massage table. Low benches along the walls have been preserved in both rooms.
The water was fed through lead pipes into small white marble bowls. The massage rooms were bordered by small sikalik steam rooms and washing rooms, which also had marble bowls and benches. The walls of the building are quite thick, they are made of limestone on hydraulic fluid, which is known as "Khorasan". These rooms are covered with spherical domes with round holes through which light entered, and natural ventilation took place. On the north side of the baths, there is a fairly large room, which is a reservoir for storing water and capturing, from which lead pipes, through the wall of the baths, entered the washing room.
In Gozlev in the Middle Ages, the baths were supplied with water through underground galleries (kyarises). In the museum of local lore, there are ceramic pipes of the water supply system of the Middle Ages, which were found on Demysheva Street in one of the kariz.
No serious research has ever been done on the baths, as it is a rather expensive undertaking. Baths of this type are the only ones preserved on the territory of the European part of the former Soviet Union.
