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Soumela Monastery was the center of Spirituality of the Greek Pontian people.Situated in present day Turkey it was for centuries a pilgimage of the Greek Pontians since the monastery was dedicated to the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary said to have been painted by Saint Luke.Besides the icon,the inside walls of the the monastery were completely covered with Byzantine frescoes,and its library was made up of thousands of books,many of them hand written and of priceless artistic and cultural value.During 1922 the monastery was attacked by Kemalist troops and it was completely destroyed and burned down
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