Yezidi cleaning Lalish temple Lalish, Northern Iraq
A Yezidi volunteer helps cleaning on the Lalish temples after Wednesday celebrations . Wednesday is the holy day for the practitioners of the Yezidi faith. 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: Lalish, Northern Iraq
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