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Pilgrimage to an Armenian Monastery in Occupied Cyprus


The pilgrimage to the Turkish occupied Armenian Monastery of Sourp Magar, organised by the Armenian MP Vartkes Mahdessian's office and The Armenian Prelature of Cyprus took place last Sunday 6th of May, 2007 with the participation of more than 200 community members - most of whom were visiting the Armenian Monastery for the first time in 33 years.

Going through memory lane participants remembered similar days, decades ago when the community would gather for the annual Harissa, when Sundays would turn to a community happening and when the land of Cilicia would be visible by the naked eye especially during winter, when snow would cover the Taurus mountain on the opposite shore only 40 miles away.

Sourp Magar Monastery is a very differArmenia, Turkey, Cyprusent place now.

Destroyed and abandoned, it greeted the 200 pilgrims with its empty walls, empty floors and empty ceilings.

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