Bath house, often attached to a mosque.
(or hammam). The Arabic word for "bath." A real hamam, or Turkish bath, is generally large and heated from underneath. It has three sections: the camekan (dressing room), hararet (steam room), and sogukluk (antechamber).
Turkish/Middle Eastern communal bath house.
Hamam (Il Bagno Turco, also known as Steam: The Turkish Bath)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654858/ IMDB: Ferzan Özpetek is a 1997 Italian/Turkish/Spanish movie directed by Ferzan Ozpetek about the powerful transformations certain places can cause in people.http://www.sover.net/~ozus/hamam.htm A love affair with a city rather than with one another by Dennis Schwartz