Ḥammām al-Buzūrīyyā

Located south of the ʾUmayyād Mosque in sūq al-Buzūrīyyā, Nūr ad-Dīn's Bathhouse is one of the oldest in Damascus. 

According to the Damascene historian ibn ʿAsākir, a bathhouse was constructed under the atabeg Nūr ad-Dīn in sūq al-Buzūrīyyā. We have a priceless corroboration in the form of an inscription at al-madrasā an-Nūrīyyā, constructed in 1172, establishing that Nūr ad-Dīn had constituted "the totality of a bathhouse recently constructed in sūq al-Qamḥ, aka the grain market" as an endowment for the madrasa. The bathhouse, therefore, was constructed somewhere between 1154, when Nūr ad-Dīn entered Damascus, and 1172. 

The edifice in 1943 was in a "remarkable" state of conservation according to Écochard and Le Cœur and had been functioning normally until a few months prior, before it had been transformed into a ẖān. 

According to Weber, the building was altered in 1887-1888. It was "in the hands of Ḥikmat Pāšā Mardam Bek" as of 1899.

Michel Écochard. Trois bains ayyoubides de Damas.

Michel Écochard et Claude Le Cœur. Les bains de Damas: monographies architecturales. Institut Français de Damas 1942-1943. Imprimerie Catholique, Beyrouth.
Jacques de Maussion de Favières. Note sur les Bains de Damas. Bulletin d'Études orientales T. XVII 1961-1963 (pp 121-131).
Stefan Weber. Damascus, Ottoman Modernity and Urban Transformation. Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus V 2009.