Historic site · Egypt
Hammam of Sultan Inal
حمام السلطان إينال
A fifteenth-century Mamluk public bathhouse on Al-Muizz Street whose rooms trace the sequence from changing room to steam chamber.
Where it is
30.0506, 31.2612
Why go
Sultan al-Ashraf Inal commissioned this bathhouse in 1456, and like other public baths of the period it served as an important social institution. A bent entrance corridor protected bathers’ privacy and opened onto a cool changing room with seating and lockers, followed by a warm resting room and the steam chamber. Domes pierced with glazed openings admitted light and helped regulate heat, while water raised by a waterwheel was warmed at a rear furnace and distributed through pottery pipes and metal spouts.
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