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A child is baptized in Lalish, the Yazidi’s most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)

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Yazidi Religion Explained

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▶ Following the Peacock: A Documentary by Eszter Spät

This anthropological documentary introduces the Yezidis, a little-known minority of Northern Iraq, and follows the tour of their most sacred object, the Standard of the Peacock through the settlements of Sinjar Mountain, where the traditional way of life and customs are undergoing a rapid change, due to the political, economic and social shifts of the last decades.

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The Quba Mere Diwane structure in Armenia is the biggest Yazidi temple in the world ( Photography by Lemma Shehadi/The Independent )

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Visitors to Lalish pay their respects at the tomb of Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir

Photograph by Rebecca Holland

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Emerging from Isis genocide, Yazidis in Armenia open religion’s biggest ever temple

In the opening part of her new series, Lemma Shehadi, this year’s winner of The Independent’s Rupert Cornwell prize for foreign journalism, travels to Aknalich, Armenia, to report on the opening of the biggest Yazidi temple in the world and finds a community attempting a renaissance

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The temple complex at Lalish as seen from the hillside.

Photograph by Rebecca Holland

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Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq?

The U.S. contemplates sending military aircraft and possible ground troops to rescue the Yazidis, as more American military advisers arrive in Iraq to help plan an evacuation of the displaced people.