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Archtarius t1_jacb63q wrote

Reply to comment by Amastarism in Sumela monastery, Trabzon, Turkiye by Drunkcodes

These kind of monastries are built in Roman Era where Christianity just begun so it wasnt accepted in Rome as a religion so any christians would be hunted down by Romans,

The monastries are hidden in mountains to hide the monks and christians from Romans

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Stroomschok t1_jad8chc wrote

This is from around 400AD. At that point Christianity was the state religion for the (two) Roman Empire(s).

Building a monastery like this requires lot of expert craftsmen and resources and is not something early Christianity could even hope to afford while it was still being oppressed two centuries earlier.

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