Behram Pasha Turkish Bath (Diyarbakır)
Pasha Bath, also known as Behram Pasha Bath, is a historical bath located in Sur district of Diyarbakir.
Behram Pasha Bath was built between 1564-1567 and has no inscription. Evliya Çelebi mentions that "The bath was built with great care by masters brought from Gaza and Jerusalem, it is eye-catching with its marbles, and it competes with the Defterdar Bath in Damascus and the Osman Bey Bath in Egypt". Many residences and shops around the bath were partially or completely destroyed due to the conflicts in Suriçi in 2015-2016, and the dome of the bath was damaged due to these events, the lighthouse was destroyed, and the walls collapsed. Despite all these deteriorations, the bath has survived to the present day with its original plan.
Extending in the north-south direction, the bath has a cross-like plan with four iwans and corner cells. Its dome is placed on an octagonal pulley and the transition to the dome is provided by pendentives. The bath is entered through two doors, from the busy street (for men) in the south direction and from the narrower west direction (for women), and a courtyard is entered from the street in the south through the pointed arch portal. In the north of the courtyard, the pointed arched door provides the passage to the cold room. On both sides of the entrance door of the cold room, the window with a flat lintel inside the pointed arch is found only in the Pasha Bath in Diyarbakir baths. The entrance door to the warm room is on the axis of the entrance door to the north of the cold room. The hot room has a cross-like plan with four iwans and four halvets, and there is an octagonal navel stone in the middle of the hot hall.
