Al-Shifa Hammam is one of the oldest continuously operating Turkish baths in the West Bank, dating to the Mamluk period and functioning without break since 1480. It sits in the eastern part of the old city, a few doors from the An-Nasir Mosque. The structure — the entrance hall, the cooling room, the hot rooms with their star-shaped skylights — is remarkably well preserved.
The hammam is a working bath, not a museum, and is open to both men and women (at different hours). Using it is one of the more unusual and genuinely historic experiences available in Nablus. The heated floors, the marble basins, and the humid atmosphere of the hot rooms are unchanged from what they would have been in the Ottoman period.