The hammam is mentioned in the "waqf" document of the Fatih Mosque in 1470–1471 (875 AH), indicating that it was built between 1454 (the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople) and 1471. Turkish scholar Doğan Kuban argues that the hammam was likely built at the same time as the "Eski Saray" (Old Palace) which Mehmet II built near this area right after the conquest, thus dating the hammam to right after 1454 and making it the oldest surviving hammam structure in the city. The only other documented hammams in the city which date from the time of Mehmet II are the Mahmut Pasha Hamam (part of the Mahmut Pasha Mosque's complex) built in 1466 and the Gedik Ahmet Pasha Hamam built around 1475.