All decked out crowd in its Wednesday best coming from a Yezidi religious folk festival at Khank, Northern Iraq.

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All decked out crowd in its Wednesday best coming from a Yezidi religious folk festival at Khank, Northern 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: Khank, Northern Iraq.
Photo credit: © Luis Dafos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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