The Ayasofya Hurrem Sultan Hamam in Istanbul was designed and built by Mimar Sinan,
the chief Ottoman architect. It was built at the request of Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana),
the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century (1556-1557 AD).
It was built where the ancient public baths of Zeuxippus (100-200 AD) used to stand,
between the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia. The area is also particularly significant
as the site where the Temple of Zeus once stood. In
Turkish bath
where men coldness,
warmness, hotness sections and women hotness, warmness and coldness sections follow each other.