Hemshin peoples

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People return from the cities with money to spend. A modern house in Elevit, but built in the traditional style. And two in an ugly modern style. And two more still being constructed.

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Traditional houses in Elevit. People live on the upper floor, the lower floor was for the cows (but few families keep cows anymore).

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Elevit. The mosque is new, and lies on the site of a church. Elevit was still mostly Christian Armenian (not Hemshinli) until 1915, and before that was the last village in the region to remain openly Christian.

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Elevit - which is now lived in mostly by city dwellers who spend just a few weeks here for summer holidays. When they leave, they leave their rubbish piled up in the river bed.

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The top of the Hodichur valley, descending from the pass over from the Tirevit valley in Hemshin

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There is a path up that mountainside that leads to the Hodichur valley.

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Mountain peaks at the head of the valley. Behind them lies the Hodichur valley.

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An old paved path leading to the yayla, the only method of access, becoming overgrown through lack of use.

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Outside and inside

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Graves that are orientated east-west, (not north-south like muslim graves)