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Hamams and Thermal Springs of Çorum

Çorum’s historic hamams (Turkish bathhouses) are found in the provincial center and in the districts of İskilip, Kargı, Osmancık, Mecitözü and Sungurlu, while thermal water rises at Hamamlıçay village in the central district and at the Beke spa (kaplıca) in Figani village, Mecitözü. This guide briefly summarizes the site’s bathhouse articles district by district; where sources give different construction dates or locations for a building, it presents both side by side and names each source. Temperatures and flow rates for the springs come from reports by Türkiye’s General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA), and history and listing details from Ministry of Culture and Tourism records.

Central Çorum (Merkez)

Paşa Hamamı (Taceddin Hamamı): A double bath (çifte hamam, with separate sections for men and women) in the market area of the Kunduzhan neighborhood, built by Taceddin İbrahim Paşa bin Hacı Bey. The women’s and men’s sections mirror each other, and each section is covered by tile-clad domes. The construction year is given as 1484 in the inventory of the Kültür Portalı, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s culture portal, and as 1487 on the “Hanlar-Hamamlar” (Inns and Baths) page of the Çorum Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism (İl Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü). According to the Directorate, a restoration that began in August 2007 was completed in April 2008, and the hamam reopened.

Ali Paşa Hamamı (Yeni Hamam): A double bath built in 1573 by Ali Paşa, Beylerbey (provincial governor) of Erzurum. It stands in the market area of the Kunduzhan neighborhood and, according to the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, beside the Çorum Clock Tower; the Directorate describes it as the largest hamam in the province. It reopened on 23 April 2008 after a 24-month restoration.

Güpür Hamamı: A hamam in the city center with women’s and men’s sections. Our article states that the building, which has no surviving inscription, is dated on stylistic grounds to the late 15th or early 16th century and stands opposite the Çorum Grand Mosque. The Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism and the Kültür Portalı, however, place it in the Üçtutlar neighborhood, give its construction year as 1436 and state that the women’s section was added in 1960. The Kültür Portalı record lists the building as not in use.

Çavuş Hamamı: According to the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, a hamam in the Üçtutlar neighborhood built in 1595 by Mustafa Ali Efendi. Houses have been built around and on top of it; its changing hall has collapsed and only the vault of the warm room survives. The site does not yet have a separate article on this building.

İskilip

The Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism lists two hamams in İskilip; the site does not yet have separate articles on either.

Deri Hamamı (Eski Hamam, the “Old Bath”): An uninscribed hamam at the foot of İskilip Castle, in the Kaleboğazı neighborhood. According to the Directorate and the Kültür Portalı, its first construction goes back to the Roman period and it took its present form in the 15th century; tradition holds that it was lost for a time and rediscovered by chance in the last century. Today it is hemmed in by houses and lies well below street level.

Yeni Hamam (also called the Şeyh Yavsi, Sabah, Şifa or Güven Hamamı): A masonry building whose men’s and women’s sections, each with a changing hall, warm room and hot room, run side by side; the water tank at the rear is shared by both sections.

The site lists the buildings described in our Sinan Paşa Hamamı, Hacı Hamza Hamamı and Mihri Hatun Hamamı articles under İskilip, while the TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (TDV Encyclopedia of Islam), the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism and a 2026 academic study place them in Kargı; details are in the Kargı section below.

Kargı

Sinan Paşa Hamamı (Hacıhamza Hamamı): According to the TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, it is part of the staging-post complex (menzil külliyesi) at Hacıhamza in Kargı, made up of a mosque, an inn, a bathhouse and a primary school built by Sinan Paşa in 912 AH (1506-1507); the bathhouse was repaired in 1956. The Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism and the Kültür Portalı give the same date under the name “Hacıhamza Hamamı” and note that during the 1956 repair the roof of the cold room was replaced with a flat ceiling; the Kültür Portalı record lists the bathhouse as not in use. Our Sinan Paşa Hamamı article describes, under İskilip, the bathhouse that Sinan Paşa, vizier of Sultan Bayezid II, built together with a mosque, a primary school and an inn, and that was repaired in 1956; our Hacı Hamza Hamamı article, also under İskilip, gives 1514 as the construction year of the bathhouse built by Sinan Paşa. For the other buildings of the complex, see Sinan Paşa Külliyesi (Complex) and Hacıhamza Castle and Caravanserai.

The Ottoman bathhouse in central Kargı (Mihri Hatun Hamamı): According to a study by Oktay Gündoğdu of Hitit University, published in the journal Kent Akademisi in 2026, the bathhouse in central Kargı popularly known as the “Mihri Hatun Hamamı” has survived largely in its original form. The rectangular building consists of a changing hall, a cold (warm) room, a corridor, a hot room, a furnace and a water tank. Because it has no inscription, its date and patron are not known for certain; the study compares its roofing system with 15th-century Ottoman bathhouses and proposes that century, and, on the basis of the available documents and chronological assessment, concludes that it was not built by Mihri Hatun. According to the study, the building has no official protection status. Our Mihri Hatun Hamamı article, by contrast, describes the bathhouse under İskilip as a ruined 17th-century building, built together with the Mihri Hatun Mosque in Mihri Hatun’s name after her death.

Osmancık

Paşa Bathhouse (Osmancık): According to Osmancık Municipality, it is the surviving one of two bathhouses that Koca Mehmet Paşa built in the district. The uninscribed building is dated to the 15th century and is still in use, open to women by day and to men at night. Remains of a bathhouse carved into the rock have also been found inside Osmancık Castle (Kandıber Castle).

Mecitözü

Koca Mehmet Paşa Hamamı: A double bath built by Koca Mehmet Paşa together with a mosque. The cold room is covered by two small domes; the hot room is surrounded by iwans (vaulted recesses) and topped by a dome. Whether it shares a patron with the Paşa Bathhouse in Osmancık has not been confirmed in the sources. The district’s Beke spa is covered in the thermal springs section below.

Sungurlu

Sungurlu Historic Bathhouse: It stands in the Sunguroğlu neighborhood beside the Ulu Cami (Sungurlu Grand Mosque). According to the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, it is a single-domed, arched Ottoman bathhouse built in 1756 (1170 AH) by Sunguroğlu Mehmet Bey. A 2012 report by the İhlas News Agency described it as decaying, with its interior starting to collapse; a 2025 report in Sungurlu Gazetesi says the bathhouse served for 256 years.

Thermal springs

Hamamlıçay (central district)

The Hamamlıçay Hot Spring is in Hamamlıçay village, in Çorum’s central district. According to MTA’s 1988 hydrogeological study, the reservoir rock of the hot water is limestone within an ophiolitic mélange; as the rising water spreads through the alluvium and mixes with surface water, its temperature drops considerably. The same report measured the spring’s flow at 1.5 l/s and its temperature at 29.1 °C. According to MTA’s 1994 report, the ÇH-2 well drilled for the Çorum Special Provincial Administration at the Hamamayağı site in the village yielded water at 28.5 °C with a flow of 6.66 l/s.

Local press coverage of a June 2026 visit to the village by Çorum Governor Ali Çalgan reported that the village’s thermal spa and a newly tapped thermal water source were inspected on site.

Beke Spa (Figani, Mecitözü)

The Beke Hot Spring Bath is in Figani village in the Mecitözü district. According to the Kültür Portalı inventory record, the spa is dated to the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods by its architectural features and the inscriptions in its central pool; although additions and repairs have altered its original character, it is Çorum’s only historic thermal bath. A second pool, no longer in use, retains Roman-period features: a dome of fired brick laid in horasan (lime and crushed-brick) mortar, columns, capitals and bases. The building was registered as a cultural property in 2005.

According to MTA’s 1983 hydrogeological survey, hot water emerges at three separate points at the spa, with a combined flow of 3.5 l/s and temperatures between 24 and 37 °C. MTA’s 1981 well completion report states that two wells, 68 and 120 meters deep, drilled at the spa for the Çorum Governorship yield water at 37 °C; the report classifies the water as “mineral-poor hot water.”

According to a 2024 report in Çorum Haber Gazetesi, the spa, 52 km from Çorum and 17 km from Mecitözü, has stood idle since 1990; the Çorum Special Provincial Administration expropriated land and piped the spa water to the side of the Çorum-Mecitözü-Amasya road. The report says that work begun in 2013 was completed in 2017 and that a thermal facility is planned for the site. A committee report read at the October 2024 meeting of the provincial council (İl Genel Meclisi) stated that a total of 45,396.70 m² had been expropriated for the spa.

Other geothermal surveys

According to a 2005 MTA report, a 225-meter hot-water exploration well was drilled at the Ilıcabağları site under a contract with Çorum Municipality, yielding water at 21.4 °C at about 0.6 l/s. According to a 2016 MTA report, the ÇİM-2014/3 well, drilled to a depth of 1,300 meters in geothermal exploration license areas obtained in İskilip in 2013, produced hot, mineralized sodium chloride water at 35.9 °C with a compressor-assisted flow of 0.07 l/s. MTA’s reports describe both as exploration wells.

All bathhouse articles and district pages

The usage and status details on this page reflect the publication dates of the sources; whether the bathhouses and spas are open may change over time.

All of the site’s bathhouse and thermal spring articles are listed on the Bathhouses of Çorum category page. For other buildings in each district, see the Merkez (central Çorum), İskilip, Kargı, Osmancık, Mecitözü and Sungurlu pages; for trip planning, see the Çorum Guide and the İskilip, Kargı, Osmancık and Sungurlu visitor guides.

Sources

Frequently asked questions

Which historic hamams are there in central Çorum?

The market area of the Kunduzhan neighborhood is home to the Paşa Hamamı (Taceddin Hamamı) and the Ali Paşa Hamamı (Yeni Hamam), built in 1573 by Ali Paşa, Beylerbey of Erzurum. The city center also has the Güpür Hamamı and, according to the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, the Çavuş Hamamı of 1595 in the Üçtutlar neighborhood. According to the Directorate, the Paşa and Ali Paşa hamams reopened in 2008 after restoration.

What is the largest hamam in Çorum?

According to the Çorum Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, the largest hamam in the province is the Ali Paşa Hamamı beside the Clock Tower. Also known as the Yeni Hamam (New Bath), it was built in 1573 by Ali Paşa, Beylerbey of Erzurum, and reopened on 23 April 2008 after a 24-month restoration.

Are there thermal springs in Çorum, and how hot is the water?

The two spas studied in MTA reports are the spa at Hamamlıçay village in the central district and the Beke spa at Figani village in Mecitözü. According to MTA measurements, the spring water at Hamamlıçay is 29.1 °C (1988) and the water from the ÇH-2 well drilled in the village is 28.5 °C (1994). At Beke the springs range from 24 to 37 °C (1983), and two wells drilled at the spa yield water at 37 °C (1981).

Is there a historic thermal bath in Çorum?

According to the inventory record on the Kültür Portalı, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's culture portal, the Beke spa at Figani village in Mecitözü is dated to the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods by its architectural features and the inscriptions in its central pool; although additions and repairs have altered its original character, it is Çorum's only historic thermal bath.

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