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Yazidi shrine of Mame Reshan, partially destroyed by ISIL, in the Sinjar Mountains. Yazidis believe in one God, to whom they refer as Xwedê, Xwedawend, Êzdan, and Pedsha ('King'), and, less commonly, Ellah and Heq. [2] [8] [9] [5] [15] According to some Yazidi hymns (known as Qewls), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls.
Yazidi converts to Christianity were mistreated by the Yazidi community. [34] In 2023, an Evangelical missionary group sparked controversy after praying at a Yazidi temple for the destruction of Yazidism. After the Yazidi genocide, there was a wave of Yazidi conversion to Christianity, mosly through missionaries.
Yazidi chief in Bashiqa, Iraq - picture by Albert Kahn (1910s) The Yazidis' own name for themselves is Êzidî or, in some areas, Dasinî, although the latter, strictly speaking, is a tribal name. Some western scholars derive the name from the Umayyad Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiyah (Yazid I). [50]
Yazidi tradition also claimed that Ezdina Mir had met Sheikh Adi when he first went to Lalish. [49] [50] Sheikh Mand, the son of Fakhruddin, also emerged as the ruler of the Yazidi-Ayyubid Emirate of Kilis, and an Ayyubid military commander. His sister, Khatuna Fekhra, was also revered as an important Yazidi female saint. [51] [52] [53]
Ziarat or Ziyarat temple is the first Yazidi temple in Armenia. It literally means "Pilgrimage Temple." The temple was consecrated in 2012. [5] Quba Mêrê Dîwanê temple: Aknalich, Armenia: The world's largest Yazidi temple dedicated to the angel Melek Taus and the Seven Angels of Yazidi theology. The temple was consecrated in 2019.
Yazidis in Bashiqa Syriac Orthodox Christians from Bashiq. Before ISIS invaded the Nineveh plain, there were 35,000 Yezidis living in the Bashiqa and Bahzani twin-villages. They made up approximately 85% of the total population. The remainder was composed of around 12% Christians and 3% Muslims.
January 6, 2008: 7 Assyrian churches bombed: three churches in Mosul and four in Baghdad. [86] August 14, 2007: Bombing of Qahtaniya and Jazeera - killed 796 people and wounded 1,562, targeting the Yazidi minority. June 4, 2007: 2 churches attacked, Ragheed Ganni, a priest, and three men were shot dead in church. [87]
The satellite channel of Lalish TV broadcast in Kurdish from Moscow and is bankrolled by the Yazidi businessman Mirza Sloyan. [5] It was launched in April 2016 and is located in the shopping mall Shengal , which takes its name from a place Yazidi live in Iraq.