Sunday, November 13

Oldest Monestary

                      Sumela Monastery Turkey

According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Sumela Monastery was founded around AD 386. That is in the early days of Christianity being legal in the Roman Empire and during the reign of the emperor Theodosius I (375 - 395). That would also make it among the oldest Christian monasteries in the world.

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