Lalish
Sign in to saveLalish (, also known as Lalişa Nûranî) is a mountain valley and temple located in the Nineveh Plains, Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis. It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith.
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- Lalish
- Settlement.native_name
- Laliş
- Settlement.other_name
- Lalişa Nûranî
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- Kurdish
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- Sacred place
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- Conical roofs over the tomb of Şêx Adî in Lalish
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- Conical roofs over the tomb of Şêx Adî in Lalish
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- Located in the Nineveh Plains, Iraq
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- Iraq
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- Located in the Nineveh Plains, Iraq
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- Country
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- Region
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- Kurdistan Region (Disputed)
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- Governorate
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- Nineveh
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- District
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- Shekhan District
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Lalish (, also known as Lalişa Nûranî) is a mountain valley and temple located in the Nineveh Plains, Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis. It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith.
The temple is above the town of Shekhan, which had the second largest population of Yazidi prior to the persecution of Yazidis by ISIL. The temple is about sixty kilometers north of Mosul and 14 kilometers west from the village Ayn Sifna. The temple is built at about 861 meters above sea level and situated among three mountains, Hizrat in the west, Misat in the south and Arafat in the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lalish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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