Ayia Triada monastery is located in Chalkis island-close to Istanbul in Marmara sea. Inside this monastery there is a Greek Ecumenical Patriarch school which in 1971 the Turkish government closed it because of changing the educational system in Turkey. Now this school is empty of students and the Ecumenic Patriarch organises congress about the religion and the environment. Also many Greek Orthodoxes are visiting the school and the monastery. Here it is Stelios a Turkish Orthodox having Greek origin. He works in the school as a seller in the gift shop of the school/ He lives in the Asian part of Istanbul and 3 years ago for first time he visited Greece and Thessaloniki.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Stelios gift shop in Chalkis school
Ayia Triada monastery is located in Chalkis island-close to Istanbul in Marmara sea. Inside this monastery there is a Greek Ecumenical Patriarch school which in 1971 the Turkish government closed it because of changing the educational system in Turkey. Now this school is empty of students and the Ecumenic Patriarch organises congress about the religion and the environment. Also many Greek Orthodoxes are visiting the school and the monastery. Here it is Stelios a Turkish Orthodox having Greek origin. He works in the school as a seller in the gift shop of the school/ He lives in the Asian part of Istanbul and 3 years ago for first time he visited Greece and Thessaloniki.
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