Yazidis
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Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis, are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran, wi
Yazidis celebrating Yazidi New Year at Lalish in 2018, in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Yazidi chief in Bashiqa, Iraq - picture by Albert Kahn (1910s)
Yazidi temple in Bashiqa, 2020
Yazidi women in traditional dress
Yazidism
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Yazidism, or Yezidism also known as Sharfadin, is a monotheistic ethnic religion. It developed through a complex historical process involving a pre-Islamic Kurdish religious substratum and the teachin
The tomb of Sheikh Adi at Lalish, the holiest Yazidi temple
Yazidi shrine of Mame Reshan, partially destroyed by ISIL, in the Sinjar Mountains.
Tawûsî Melek depicted as a peacock inside the display case on the grave of a Yazidi believer, cemetery of the Yazidi community in Hanover.
Entrance to the Yazidi Temple in Lalish