Hurrem Hamam Istanbul
by Weston Westmoreland
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Hurrem Hamam Istanbul
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Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Haseki Hurrem Sultan Hamam at night, Istanbul, Turkey.
Placed right in front of Hagia Sophia, the bath-house of Haseki Hürrem Sultan (aka Ayasofya Haseki Hamamı), is a sixteenth-century hamam (Turkish bath) in Istanbul. It was built by the renowned Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan where the Byzantine Baths of Zeuxippus stood.
The Hamam was commissioned by Hürrem Sultan, consort and legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Also known as Roxelana, Hurrem started as a slave, to become a concubine, then a favorite and finally the most powerful woman in the history of the Ottoman Empire. She gave Suleiman six sons, when the tradition forbid more than one, and had great influence in Sultan Suleiman's decisions.
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September 19th, 2019
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