Hammam Ben Abbad

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Hammam Ben Abbad [1] or Hammam Ibn Abbad [2] is a historic hammam (bathhouse) in the medina (old city) of Fes, Morocco. It is located in the Kettanin neighbourhood south of the Zawiya of Moulay Idris, near the Funduq Kettanin. [3] The hammam dates from the 14th century and was recently restored during a major rehabilitation program involving over two dozen other historic monuments in the city. [1] [4] Its name comes from a local Muslim saint who is associated with the building, [5] and the waters of the hammam were believed to have healing properties. [3] Entered from the north, the hammam has the usual series of rooms inherited from the Roman bathhouse model: an undressing room (equivalent to an apodyterium), a cold room (frigidarium), warm room (tepidarium), and a hot room (calderium). [6] [2] The hammam was part of the habous (endowment) of the Qarawiyyin Mosque. [7]

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  1. 1 2 "La magnifique rénovation des 27 monuments de Fès – Conseil Régional du Tourisme (CRT) de Fès" (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-02-27. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  2. 1 2 Raftani, Kamal; Radoine, Hassan (2008). "The Architecture of the Hammams of Fez, Morocco". Archnet-IJAR. 2 (3): 56–68.
  3. 1 2 Le Tourneau, Roger (1949). Fès avant le protectorat: étude économique et sociale d'une ville de l'occident musulman. Casablanca: Société Marocaine de Librairie et d'Édition. p. 250.
  4. ↑ "Fès/Restauration de la médina: Le musée vivant ressuscité". L'Economiste (in French). 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  5. ↑ "Résumé des discussions – ECO-HAMMAM" (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  6. ↑ Sibley, Magda; Jackson, Iain (2012). "The architecture of Islamic public baths of North Africa and the Middle East: an analysis of their internal spatial configurations". Architectural Research Quarterly. 16 (2): 155–170. doi:10.1017/S1359135512000462.
  7. ↑ Secret, Edm. (1942). "Les hammams de Fes" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut d'Hygiène du Maroc. 2: 61–78. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-08-30. Retrieved 2020-09-16.

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