The village of Alraya

Located on a hill overlooking an agricultural valley northwest of Al-Atawla and about 6 kilometers away from it, it is one of the villages of Bani Harir and most of its houses consist of one-story houses. Most of the houses are one-story and are adjacent and mostly abandoned. Their walls were built using stones stacked on top of each other in an artistic way that required high professional expertise, and were shortened from the inside with a thick layer of mud and yogurt. It was built using stone according to the shape of its natural section, which is of varying sizes. It was installed in a high-quality technical manner and in a monolithic manner to ensure the cohesion of the walls. The ceilings were built using tree trunks and on top of them . A layer of tree branches, and on top of it mud and milk. In a number of houses, roofs were built on rectangular wooden poles topped with a larger piece that resembles the crown of the pillar and is known locally as the mizrahi. The mizrahi is a distinctive architectural element of this architectural style in this region. However, in most of the houses in this village, it is unadorned and consists of a piece of a tree trunk according to its natural shape. The doors and windows of the houses are characterized by their simplicity and lack of decorations, and since there is only one modern house within the boundaries of the village, its exterior appearance is characterized by its heritage nature, as if it were a fortress on the top of a mountain