on Wednesdays Yezidis from all the region gather and picnic around the Lalish temples. Northern Iraq

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Yezidis from all the region gather and picnic around the Lalish temples. 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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