Lalish Temple
Yazidi Kurds performing the rites and rituals of Winter Forty-Day Feast (or in Kurdish Çileya Zivistanê) at Lalish Temple, Feb. 2, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
The commencement ceremony of rituals of the "Winter Forty Days" in Lalish temple. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Participants who took part in the cultural trip organized by Al-Mada Reading Club and the German Goethe-Institute. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
The baptismal rites of Suad and her young daughter in the sacred valley of Lalish, Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
A number of Yazidi volunteers harvest olives on the sacred annual olive harvest season. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
PM Masrour Barzani embracing a young Yazidi girl during his last visit to Lalish temple. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
An elderly Yazidi woman recounts the horrors of genocide from her bed. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Yezidis participating in Red Wednesday in Lalish, April 19, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistsn 24)
A number of students visited Lalish in May (Photo: Soran University)
Yezidis gather at their holy Lalish Temple on eve of the Yezidi New Year, Apri. 19, 2022 (Photo: Kurmanj Nhili)
Renovation work by the KRG on the Pere-Khosh-Ava Yezidi shrine, Shekhan district, Kurdistan Region, April 8, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
