New Life Breathed into The old Co-op

The oldest building in the East coast village of Breiðdalsvík is the old Co-op built in 1906. It was the merchant's outpost serving the multiple, relatively small farms that in the 19^th Cent filled the parish of Eydalir in the enormous broad valley, Breiðdalur. This is the building that in its run down state had become the foreigners’ house that we migrant workers lived in 1986.

The old Co-op 1986 with its rusty red roof

Now the old Co-op, which shortly after it was built looked like this,




Gamla Kaupfélagið

has been refurbished as a centre for trekking, historical and geological research and now looks like this.



Gamla Kaupfélagið


See Breiðdalsvík’s website for photos of the restoration of the house