Rooftop view of the domes (over the undressing room) of the Saffarin Hammam
The Hammam as-Saffarin (or Saffarin Hammam, Hammam Seffarine, etc.) is a historic hammam (bathhouse) in the medina (old city) of Fes, Morocco. It is located on the southwest side of Place Seffarine, across from the Madrasa Saffarin and south of the Qarawiyyin Mosque.
The Hammam as-Saffarin (or SaffarinHammam, Hammam Seffarine, etc.) is a historic hammam (bathhouse) in the medina (old city) of Fes, Morocco. It is located...
Sultan Hamam. Unusually for Morocco, the Hammam as-Saffarin in Fes is another example. Regional variations in hammam architecture usually relate to the relative...
Saffarin Madrasa (Arabic: مدرسة الصفارين, lit. 'madrasa of the metalworkers') is a madrasa in Fes el-Bali, the old medina quarter of Fez, Morocco. It was...
located in Fes el Bali, the oldest medina quarter of the city, near the Saffarin Madrasa along the Oued Fes (also known as the Oued Bou Khrareb). Since...
the Saffarin Madrasa to the east, and by the SaffarinHammam (bathhouse) to the southwest. It is named after the coppersmiths (seffarin or saffarin; Arabic:...
which, including a mihrab, survived until modern times) and a bathhouse (hammam). Some sources attribute these structures, or a predecessor of these structures...
space used for games. The neighbourhood also had its own oven as well as a hammam (bathhouse). The houses of the Mellah today are notable for their marked...
: 292 : 198 (Other Marinid madrasas in Morocco with minarets include the Saffarin Madrasa,: 286 the Madrasa of Fes el-Jdid, and the madrasa of Chellah,: 205 ...
mosque/zawiya). Further west, on the south side of Place Nejjarine, is the historic Hammam Moulay Idris which is associated with his tomb and traditionally considered...
and a hot room (calderium). The hammam was part of the habous (endowment) of the Qarawiyyin Mosque. HammamSaffarinHammam al-Mokhfiya "La magnifique rénovation...
the most richly decorated monuments in Fez. The first of these was the Saffarin Madrasa in 1271, followed by the Sahrij Madrasa in 1321, the al-Attarine...
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