🇮🇶Yazidis celebrate New Year in Iraq | Al Jazeera English
For the Yazidi, this is the start of year 6,762, and they have travelled to Lalesh, in northern Iraq, from mountain villages, towns and cities in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Europe to celebrate.
Yazidis believe in the same God as Muslims, Christians, and Jews, but they believe they were the first people God created. Along with Babylonian rituals, and elements of other religions, they worship the sun.
On New Year's day, the Yazidi faithful, along with Kurdish Muslim and Christian leaders, pay their respects to the prince of the Yazidis.
Like the Kurds, the Yazidi were pressured to declare themselves Arab under Saddam Hussein, the late Iraqi ruler.
Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Lalesh.
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Yazidis believe in the same God as Muslims, Christians, and Jews, but they believe they were the first people God created. Along with Babylonian rituals, and elements of other religions, they worship the sun.
On New Year's day, the Yazidi faithful, along with Kurdish Muslim and Christian leaders, pay their respects to the prince of the Yazidis.
Like the Kurds, the Yazidi were pressured to declare themselves Arab under Saddam Hussein, the late Iraqi ruler.
Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Lalesh.
At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.'
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