Gara dash pir
Basarkecher district, occupying the southern and southeastern part of Goycha lake, on the Tarsa plateau in the Shahdag range.
In 1969, the name of the Basarkecher area was changed by the Armenian church to Vardenis, and the Tarse plain was called Tarsa.
Architecture
After the deportation of 1988, Gara dash pir became a derelict and lonely place.
On Mount Gara Dash at the height of the Tarsus plateau, the Gara Dash pir was located above the spring of the same name. Visitors who came to the pir with various divine and emotional intentions also made sacrifices here (from the villages of Dashkend, Kirkhbulag, Mazra, Gayabashi... as well as from the Gadabey and Kelbajar regions). Among the natural-geographical regions of Western Azerbaijan, Lake Goycha is formed in the high-mountain basin of the western part of the Shahdag ridge, at an altitude of 1896 meters (area 1243 sq. km, average depth 26 m) and has a rich historical past in administrative and territorial aspects. The hydrotoponym “Goycha” in the Haput language, one of the ancient Turkic languages (in the 1st century BC, the Greek geographer Strabo (63-24 BC) in the 11th book of his work “Geography” he showed that the Khaputs were one of the 26 ancient Turkic-speaking tribes on the territory of Azerbaijan. The explanation, first of all, is that when creating our national toponyms, the spiritual and emotional thought was also taken into account, expressing the sublimity and high position in the philological spirit of the oath “I swear by Sky,” which is preserved in Muslim-Turkish beliefs to this day. The ancient Turks (“Sky Turks”) adapted the word “sky”, which also means an elevation to the same expression in the name of the hydronym “Lake Goyche”, as an ancient historical anthropotoponymic phrase. Therefore, in the formation it is emotional-spiritual worldview in the Goyche mahal as a natural-geographical area, the mystical-religious inclusion of emotions is not accidental .
The pir and pilgrimage pre-Christian religious and religious treasures, examples of ancient Albanian and Islamic religious cultural heritage, and are also reflected in the rich moral and everyday knowledge of representtatives of religious and mystical figures 35.