Temple caretaker. The Yazidi shrines at the village of Khank display an unusual profusion of sacred images. Northern Iraq

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Temple caretaker. The shrines at the village of Khank display an unusual profusion of sacred images. 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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Size: 4646px × 3096px
Location: Khank, Northern Iraq.
Photo credit: © Luis Dafos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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