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 Muslimsaint 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]
^ abLe 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.
^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.
^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.
