Manglavita Chapel
Manglavita Chapel consists of a chapel carved in a rock, a demolished wall chapel and a grave built on a high and rocky area in Toklu Quarter of Trabzon. Access to the chapel is provided by natural stairs carved into the rock. The apse to the east of the rectangular Chapel has a small window.The history of the chapel dates back to the 9th-10th centuries and it has overtones of a demolished chapel.
SANTA MARIA CHURCH
Located in the Kemerkaya Neighbourhood, the church was built for the foreign citizens around 1869 and 1874 upon the order of Sultan Abdülmecit.
St. Sabbas Chapel
Built on rocks on the northern slopes of Boztepe overlooking the Old Christian Cemetery, the history of the St. Sabbas Chapel dates back to the 13th-15th centuries.Access to the chapel that is a two-storey structure consisting of three chapels carved into the rock, was provided by natural stairs carved into the rock.According to Anthony Bryer and David Winfield, writers of The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of The Pontos, Kings of Trabzon named III.
KUŞTUL MONASTERY
Known as Peristera, this Monastery was built nearby the Şimşirli village in Maçka district in the middle of the 8th century. Only the base of the church has survived to the present.
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