The Charsi Hamam (Market Bath) is part of the complex of the adjacent Yeni Mosque. It occupied the market center of the Ottoman quarter of Aziziye. (It was built in the center of a green orchard).here is no mention of its construction in the available historical sources, its morphological characteristics refer us to the first quarter of the 19th century.
It is a typical bath building, with a tripartite, linear arrangement of spaces, which gradually goes from the cold to the warm space. (Its spaces unfold in a linear arrangement, in a way that is part of the general typology of hammams, where one goes gradually from the cold space to the hot one). The typology is known from ancient balaneia and Roman baths. In the Ottoman (secular) urban architecture that continues the Byzantine urban habits, the baths were the reception area for strangers in the city and were part of the religious and social context of Islam.
From February 2000, the fixing and restoration of the monument began by the Municipality of Mytilini and under the supervision of the 14th Ephorate of Byzantium Antiquities, which was fully restored and returned to the public in 2001.
