The Byzantine monastery of Sümela, located in the mountains of the province of Trabzon, in the Turkish Black Sea region, hosted for the 10th year a Christian ritual of the Greek-Orthodox community presided over by the Patriarch of the Greek-Orthodox Church of Constantinople (Istanbul), Bartolomeos I, who during his sermon thanked Turkish authorities for allowing Christian ceremonies to be held since 2010 in this monastery, which for decades had functioned as a museum after being abandoned at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Byzantine Sümela Monastery was built in 386 by order of the Roman Emperor Theodosius the Great, and later expanded in the 13th century under the Byzantine Emperor Alexios III. Candidate for UNESCO World Heritage Site, this spectacular building built on the side of a mountain has been a museum since 1922, and one of the main tourist attractions in the Black Sea region of Turkey.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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