Sharfadin Temple
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| Sharfadin Temple | |
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| Affiliation | Sharfadin |
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| Location | Sinjar, Iraq |
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| Part of a series on the Yazidi religion |
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The Sharfadin Temple (Kurdish: Perestgeha Şerfedîn) in Sinjar, Iraq is a Yazidi temple built 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 18 lightly armed Yazidi Peshmerga fighters who were residing under the command of Qasim Shesho successfully held off a larger and better equipped ISIL force with armored vehicles, mortars, rockets, and other artillery that had attacked the shrine as part of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL.[1][2]