ARAB BATHS

The water is an essential element without which cannot be understood the Islamic culture; the Moslem cities are designed on the basis of it. The prior ritual purification need to the prayer and the frequency of the same one, does of this culture one of the more you affect to the personal hygiene of as many they are known. The wudu or smaller ablution is carried out in any point of running water, generally in the house or in the patio of the mosques. The greater ablution, by his characteristics, he requires of the bath, being carried out in the place called hammam.

The hammam, by its dimensions, lodges generally in a specific building, designed al effect and that is used to being in the proximity of the mosque, given the bond that by religious motives is established among both.

By its universal projection, the hammam tends to be public, being