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Inside a domed fifteenth-century Turkish bath in the Sirkeci district, the Hodjapasha Culture Center stages performances of whirling dervishes and traditional dance that have made it a popular evening destination for visitors to Istanbul. The building is the Hodja Pasha Hamam, a large double bathhouse built in the years after the Ottoman conquest for Hodja Sinan Pasha, a tutor and vizier to Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, and it served the neighbourhood as a bath until 1988 before being carefully ...