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Quba Pire Ewra ("Pir of the people") Temple in Sinjar, Iraq Şexsê Batê Babira, Iraq Shrine of Shekhse Bate in Babera village, Iraq Quba Sheikh Mand Sinjar, Iraq Shrine in the southern part of Sinjar, Iraq. Dedicated to Sheikh Mand. Shrine of Nishingaha Peroz: Ain Sifni, Iraq: Ezidi shrine of Nishingaha Peroz near Ain Sifni, Duhok Governorate ...
Lalish (Kurdish: لالش, romanized: Laliş, [1] [2] also known as Lalişa Nûranî) is a mountain valley [3] and temple [4] located in the Nineveh Plains, Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis. [5] It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith. [6]
The Sharfadin Temple in Sinjar, Iraq is a Yazidi temple built in honor of Sheikh Sherfedin. It is considered by Yazidis as one of the holiest places on earth. [1] The temple is made of a pale yellow stone, with two cones atop the building. At the tip of each cone are three gold balls and a crescent reaching skyward. [1]
On August 14, 2007, the Yazidis in Iraq were victims of the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings in Sinjar, which killed 796 people. [9] On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, killing an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Yazidis and abducting another 6,000 to 7,000 Yazidis women and ...
Mam Rashan Shrine, partially destroyed by ISIL. Mam Rashan Shrine after the destruction (close-up). Mam Rashan Shrine was a Yazidi shrine built in the 12th century located on Mount Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. The shrine is dedicated to Pîr Mehmed Reşan, a Yazidi holy figure associated with agriculture, rain, and the annual harvest. [1]
The Kurdish name of the town is derived from the plural form of "sheikh" ("holy man" in Kurdish), and thus translates to "[the land of the] holy men".[7] [10] According to Yazidi tradition, Shekhan means "two sheikhs" and referred to the first time that Abdulqadir Gilani, founder of Qadiriyya, and Adi ibn Musafir, founder of Adawiyya, had met, which was on the site of what later became Shekhan ...
Bahzani has numerous Yazidi shrines, including: [8] Shrine of Ebû Rîsh; Shrine of Sheikh Bako. The shrine is accompanied by a spring with a fig tree, which is visited by pilgrims with fevers. Pilgrims fasten small bits of their clothes on the tree and feed the fish in the spring.
The following is a list of Yazidi settlements in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Armenia, including both current and historical Yazidi settlements. Historically, Yazidis lived primarily in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. [1] However, events since the end of the 20th century have resulted in considerable demographic shifts in these areas as well as mass ...