“Firuz-bey, Bosnian sanjak-bey (governor) from 1505 to 1512, built a hammam and endowed it to provide for the maintenance of the neighbourhood mosque and medresa (Islamic high school) on the site still known as Medresa. As well as the hammam, Firuz-bey also endowed land and numerous shops and mills. Work probably began on the hammant in mid 1509. It was closed down in 1810 and finally demolished just after World War I. No blueprints, photographs or drawings of the Firuz-bey hammam have survived, making it impossible to say exactly what it looked Iike. It belonged to the type of double hammam, with separate men’s and women’s facilities, and most of the rooms were domed. The entrance to the hammam was from Bascarsija square. The best-preserved remains of the Firuz-bey hammam are to be seen on the eastern part of the plot. The culhan (hipocaustum, furnace-room) was in Mali Saraci street, later named Culhan street.” 

Sources:

Commission to Preserve National Monuments Plaque

Sanković Simčić, Vjekoslava, ed. FIRDUZ-BEY’S HAMMAM: Revitalization of the archaeological site. National Committee ICOMOS in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012. https://www.icomosubih.ba/pdf/publikacije/FIRDUZ-BEY%20HAMMAM_Revitalization%20of%20the%20archaeological%20site.pdf. Archived at: https://perma.cc/YGC4-RDF5