TOMARZA\’DA YAKLASIK 300 YILLIK TARIHE SAHIP MANASTIR, SAHIPSIZ KALDIGI ICIN ZAMANA YENIK DUSUP YIKILDI. MANASTIRDAN SADECE BIRKAC DUVAR KALINTISI KALDI. (FOTO: MURAT GURBUZLER/TOMARZA-KAYSERI DHA)

ISTANBUL — The 300-year-old Armenian monastery of Surp Astvatsatsin (Tomarza Monastery) has completely deteriorated in the Tomarza district of Turkey’s central Anatolian Kayseri province, with merely a few ruined walls remaining, Hurriyet dailyn reports.

The monastery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is situated in Kayseri’s Cumhuriyet neighborhood.

An important location for pilgrimage, the monastery also hosted famous British traveler and archaeologist Gertrude Bell in 1909.

Unfortunately, the monastery was looted and abandoned in 1915.

A group of Armenian priests tried to use the monastery after the end of World War I, despite the severe damage the building had endured. However, they later had to abandon the monastery to its fate.

In the monastery’s ruins lie the Gregorian Armenian School, which had previously hosted the annual Festival of the Assumption with the attendance of central Anatolian and Lycian Armenians.

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  1. armenians better fix their country and cleanup the corruption and mafia – oligarchy culture and suppers ion. there are many churches in ruins, better fix those first,

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