page_title: Sauna
section_title: Technologies
hierarchical_section_title: Sauna / Technologies
caption_attribution_description: English: A Finnish smoke sauna stove. This one is located in a museum area close to the Utsjoki church. The sauna was used by long-distance church-goers overnighting in the log cabins next to the church. Suomi: Savusaunan kiuas Utsjoen kirkkotuvilla.
context_page_description: A sauna, or sudatory, is a small room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these facilities. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire. Infrared therapy is often referred to as a type of sauna, but according to the Finnish sauna organisations, infrared is not a sauna.
  Tampere, the third largest city of Finland, has been officially declared the "Sauna Capital of the World".
context_section_description: Today there are a wide variety of sauna options. Heat sources include wood, electricity, gas and other more unconventional methods such as solar power. There are wet saunas, dry saunas, infrared saunas, smoke saunas, and steam saunas. There are two main types of stoves: continuous heating and heat storage type. Continuously heating stoves have a small heat capacity and can be heated up on a fast on-demand basis, whereas a heat storage stove has a large heat (stone) capacity and can take much longer to heat.
caption: Smoke sauna stove
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