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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 ...
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 ...
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]
It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith. [6] The temple is above the town of Shekhan, which had the second largest population of Yazidi prior to the persecution of Yazidis by ISIL. [7] The temple is about sixty kilometers north of Mosul and 14 kilometers west from the village Ayn Sifna ...
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 ...
BAGHDAD — Khairi Ali Ibrahim can feel the danger rising. Ibrahim is a member of Iraq’s Yazidi religious community, one of the most persecuted and vulnerable minorities in the world.
The estimated 400,000-strong Yazidi community in Iraq is a Kurdish minority whose faith combines elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam. Six years on: Yazidi survivors see 'only empty ...
Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him captive. The attack was the start of ...