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Tripoli’s most beautiful and most luxurious; the Hammam is currently undergoing restoration. It is the new Ottoman bath built by Asaad Pasha al-Athem in 1740 AD. It features a luxurious gateway decorated with cornices, domes and beautiful finishes surrounded by white and black stones. Above the gate a string of stones carved out of a single stone turned by the craftsman into a series of separate overlapping rings reflecting unbeatable originality. Inside, the new Hammam looks like the rest of Tripoli’s old Hammams. The grand hall is covered by a huge dome and features a colorful marble floor in exquisite shapes surrounded by stone terraces with a basin and a fountain in the middle. The internal sections partitions (outer, middle and inner) are characterized by domes decorated with different configurations of openings covered with thick glass to allow daylight in.
Historical Significance
Tripoli’s most beautiful and most luxurious old Hammam
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