Khan Anush Mohammed's Bath

Subterranean 17th-century bathhouse beside Ak Mosque

Khan Anush Mohammed's Bath is the domed building beside Ak Mosque, with most of its rooms set below ground to keep the walls warm. The layout preserves the main parts of an oriental bathhouse: entrance vestibule, dressing room, washing areas, cold-water well, and underfloor heating.

It is a small stop, but a good one if you are interested in Khiva's everyday architecture as well as its madrasahs and minarets. The bathhouse shows how much engineering sat behind what looks, from street level, like a simple low dome.

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