Yezidi graveyard and temples at Ain Sifni, traditional home of the yezidi hierarchy. Ninawa, Iraq

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Yezidi graveyard at Ain Sifni , traditional home of the yezidi hierarchy. Ninawa , Iraq. Yezidism is the ancestral faith of the Kurdish people. Even inside the oasis of peace of the Kurdistan region (but only 50 kms away from war-torn Mosul), Lalish, the holiest shrine of the yezidis, is facing death. Isolated, missunderstood and endogamic, Yezidism, the ancestral faith of the kurds is shrinqing every day and melting into the surrounding sea of Islam. Iraq.

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Location: Ain Sifni, Ninawa, Iraq
Photo credit: © Luis Dafos / Alamy / Afripics
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