Sümela Monastery is probably one of the most famous places in Trabzon. It is a former Greek Orthodox monastery in the Pontic Mountains in the Maçka district of Trabzon. It is situated 3900 feet on a cliff side facing Altındere Valley. It's not quite known when the monastery was founded but it's guessed to have been built around 386 AD. It was used up until the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Sumela ... Read more
