Sharfadin Temple

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Sharfadin temple
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Sharfadin temple
Religion
AffiliationYazidism
Location
LocationSinjar, Iraq

The Sharfadin temple in Sinjar, Iraq is an 800-year old Yazidi temple build in honor of Sheikh Sherfedin. It is considered by Yazidis as one of the holiest places on earth.[1]

The temple is made of a pale yellow stone, with two cones atop the building. At the tip of each cone are three gold balls and a crescent reaching skyward.[1]

In August 2014, the temple was the site of a battle where a handful of lightly armed Yazidi militia fighters supported by Peshmerga and YPG forces successfully held off a larger and better equipped ISIL force with armored vehicles, mortars, and rockets that had attacked the shrine as part of the Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL.[1][2]

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  1. ^ a b c "Outmanned And Outgunned, Fighters Defend Yazidi Shrine Against ISIS". NPR. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  2. ^ "No Escape From Sinjar Mountain". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
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