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The Sumela Monastery in Turkey's Black Sea Province of Trabzon

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Black Mountain - Trabzon Province

Turkey

Sumela Monastery

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Sumela Monastery in Trabzon. Turkey 🇹🇷

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📍Holly Monastery of Panagia Sumela, Turkey!!

The Holy Monastery of Panagia Sumela is a Christian monument in the Sea of ​​Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey. It functioned as an Orthodox monastery until the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922. It is built inside a cave on a steep slope of Mount Mela, in the hinterland of Trebizond, from where it takes its name, (Pontian: sou Mela, cleaning: eis tou Mela).

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According to tradition, in 386 the Athenian monks Barnabas and Sophronios were led to the inaccessible mountain peaks of Pontus after an apparition of the Virgin Mary, in order to establish her solitary abode.

The monks Varnavas and Sophronios, with the support of the neighboring Vazelona monastery, built a cell and then a church inside the cave, to which the icon had been miraculously transported. The serious problem of the monastery's water supply was solved, also according to tradition, in a miraculous way.

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Architecturally mind blowing. The Sumela Monastery in Turkey’s Black Sea Province of Trabzon.

Panagia Sumela ist a greek orthodox Monastery-dated around AD 386, during the reign of the emperor Theodosius I (375–395).Two Athenian monks named Barnabas and Sophronios founded the monastery. It became famous for an icon of the Theotokos known as the Panagia Gorgoepekoos, said to have been painted by the Apostle Luke.

Trabzon (or Trebizond or Τραπεζουντα in modern Greek) is the ‘capital’ of Pontic Greeks, an ethnically greek group with historical presence in the region of Pontus.

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4th-century Sumela Monastery at Karadağ, Trabzon province, Turkey

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Originally, I was aghast that they wouldn’t wanna live in a place like this that is in such good condition but then I looked at the comments I noticed that this is not a Scottish castle. Why? Because it is not in Scotland. It is not even on the continent of Europe at all. It is in Turkey. It’s near Armenia. It’s also not a castle, it’s a monastery. It is still kind of in operation. The religious order doesn’t use the building but it’s still open for tourists. Here is the actual information: 

Sumela Monastery in Turkey. That’s not a castle.

That honestly makes a lot of sense. In many places in the world, monastic orders tend to build their monasteries very far from civilization as a way to withdraw from civilization and the hubbub of every day life. 

THIS is Dunalastair Castle in Scotland. Or, What’s left of it.

Abandoned Dunalastair Castle, Scotland

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Sumela Monastery In Trabzon, Turkey

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Soumela Monastery, Turkey: Sumela Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to Mary located at Karadağ within the Pontic Mountains, in the Maçka district of Trabzon Province in modern Turkey. Wikipedia

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Sumela Greek Orthodox Monastery: Trabzon, Turkey

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SUMELA Monastery.

🏛️Trabzon /TURKEY

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Sumela Monastery, a Greek Orthodox monastery originally established around AD 386 nestled in a steep cliff at an altitude of 1200 meters, Trabzon Province, Turkey.

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Sumela monastery, Turkey

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Sumela Monastery, A Greek Orthodox Monastery Originally Established Around Ad 386 Nestled In A Steep Cliff At An Altitude Of 1200 Meters, Trabzon Province, Turkey

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This is the Sumela Monastery, a Greek Orthodox monastery believed to have been built around AD 386 at an altitude of 3900 feet on a cliff-face in the Pontic Mountains in Trabzon province, Turkey.