The impressive Sumela Monastery is built into the side of a mountain—and well worth a day trip from the Trabzon, Turkey, port, says one reader who entered our cruise contest. "In this unusual, ...

FILE PHOTO: The former Sumela Monastery in the Black Sea coastal province of Trabzon, northeastern Turkey ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's foreign ministry said on Monday images showing a band dancing to ...

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MACKA, TurkeyMACKA, Turkey — Orthodox Christians held the first Mass in almost 90 years at an ancient monastery on the side of a Turkish mountain Sunday, after the government allowed worship there in ...

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 Christians to arrive along ...