{"id":8426,"date":"2025-08-09T00:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/hammam-al-bakri-hammam-of-parviz-pasha\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:59:51","slug":"hammam-al-bakri-hammam-of-parviz-pasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/hammam-al-bakri-hammam-of-parviz-pasha\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammam al-Bakri\n\/ Hammam of Parviz Pasha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small-scale historic hammam with a barrani hall featuring iwans, a dome with a skylight (qafaa\u2018a), and colored glass; a central hall with cross-sectioned divisions and northern\/southern private rooms (e.g., for depilation treatments); a jawwani section with stone basins, decorative mihrab niches, and twin wash areas; and a furnace area repurposed with copper tanks and electric utilities. An exterior poetic inscription adorns the facade.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1026 CE along Al-Nahawi Lane, Hammam al-Bakri exemplifies early Abbasid bathhouse architecture with its classic four-section layout, ornamental glass, and poetic inscriptions. Despite ongoing restoration, it continues to function as a modestly sized historic bathhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small-scale historic hammam with a barrani hall featuring iwans, a dome with a skylight (qafaa\u2018a), and colored glass; a central hall with cross-sectioned divisions and northern\/southern private rooms (e.g., for depilation treatments); a jawwani section with stone basins, decorative mihrab niches, and twin wash areas; and a furnace area repurposed with copper tanks and electric utilities. An exterior poetic inscription adorns the facade. Built in 1026 CE along Al-Nahawi Lane, Hammam al-Bakri exemplifies early Abbasid bathhouse architecture with its classic four-section layout, ornamental glass, and poetic inscriptions. Despite ongoing restoration, it continues to function as a modestly sized historic bathhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,394],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-damascus","category-traditional-public-baths-damascus","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}