Similar Sweat Bathing Facilities
The Finnish-style sauna (generally 70–80 °C (158–176 °F), but can vary from 60 to 120 °C (140–248 °F)) and the wet steam bath are the most widely known forms of sweat bathing.
Many cultures have close equivalents, such as the North American First Nations (in Canada) or Native American (in the United States) sweat lodge (Navajo: Inipi, Anishanabe: madoodiswan), the Karo oukup, the Turkish or Arab hammam, ancient Roman thermae, Nahuatl (Aztec) temāzcalli, Maya zumpul-ché, Mixtec Ñihi, Russian banya, Estonian saun, the Jewish Shvitz, African Sifutu, Swedish bastu, Japanese Mushi-Buro, and the Korean jjimjilbang. Public bathhouses that often contained a steam room were common in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and were inexpensive places to go to wash when private facilities were not generally available.
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