AP PHOTOS: Time slowly washing away Iran's public bathhouses
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's historic bathhouses, where patrons are rinsed and massaged beneath graceful archways and tiled walls, may soon disappear as interest in them wanes./ Some of the bathhouses, known as "hammams" in Persian, are centuries old. But business has declined as modern conveniences now allow showers and baths in most homes across the Islamic Republic. The few that remain, mostly in old neighborhoods, largely draw day laborers and travelers. "Nowadays, there are only three or four public bathhouses in Tehran," says Mahdi ...
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