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Sumela Monastery, located in Turkey’s northwestern Black Sea province of Trabzon, was visited by more than 123,000 people in 99 days. The monastery, one of the most important faith tourism centers of ...

Turkey is working on a new cable car project that will give tourists a unique way to explore the historic Sumela Monastery in the country’s northeast, an official said on Thursday. Sumela, a monastic ...

Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) - The ancient Monastery of Sumela, located in the province of Trabzon and closed for years to visitors because it has undergone demanding restoration works, was used as a ...

A historic mass at the Sumela Monastery in the Black Sea coastal province of Trabzon – a first in republican history – took place yesterday. Some 3,000 Orthodox Christians gathered for the mass at the ...

Trabzon, Turkey (CNN) — If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th century CE by some of the earliest ...