Hammam as-Sarah
View from the NE with the furnace area in the foreground, after reconstruction (2013) | |
| Alternative name | Hammam as-Sarkh, Hammam as-Sarakh |
|---|---|
| Location | Zarqa Governorate, Jordan |
| Type | bathhouse |
| History | |
| Periods | Umayyad |
| Site notes | |
| Archaeologists | H.C. Butler (1905), Creswell (1926), Ghazi Bisheh (Jordanian Department of Antiquities, 1974-75), Ignacio Arce (Spanish Archaeological Mission to Jordan) |
| Condition | restored ruin |
Hammam al-Sarah is an Umayyad bathhouse (hammam) in Jordan, built in connection with the complex of Qasr al-Hallabat, which stands some 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the west. Along with examples in the other desert castles of Jordan, it is one of the oldest surviving remains of a Muslim bathhouse.