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Sharfadin Temple. The Sharfadin temple 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.
Lalish temple. Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. The location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith and considered the holiest of Yazidi temples. [2] Sharfadin temple. Sinjar, Iraq. 800 year old temple considered by Yazidis as one of the holiest places on earth. [3] Dedicated to Sherfedin.
Lalish. Lalish (Kurdish: لالش, romanized: Laliş, [1][2] also known as Lalişa Nûranî) is a mountain valley [3] and temple [4] located in the Nineveh Plains of northern 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. [5]
Holiest sites in Shia Islam. Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims agree on the three holiest sites in Islam being, respectively, the Masjid al-Haram (including the Kaaba), in Makkah; the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, in Medina; and the Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa, in Jerusalem. Shia Muslims consider sites associated with Muhammad, his family members (Ahl al-Bayt), Shia ...
Al-Kadhimiyya Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْكَاظِمِيَّة, romanized: Masjid al-Kāẓimiyya) is a Shi'a Islamic mosque and shrine located in the Kādhimiya suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. It contains the tombs of the seventh and ninth Twelver Shī'ī Imāms, respectively Mūsā al-Kādhim and his grandson Muhammad al-Jawad.
Taisha (shrine) Taisha is a term used to refer to a rank of Shinto shrines. A taisha (大社) (the characters are also read ōyashiro) is literally a "great shrine" [1] that was classified as such under the old system of shrine ranking, the shakaku (社格), abolished in 1946. [2][3]
The information board at the front entrance says the temple site was founded in 1864 by Kapitan Yap Ah Loy, dedicated to patron deities of Sin Sze Ya and Si Sze Ya. [1] The deities has guided Yap to defeat the enemies and defend the town of Kuala Lumpur during the civil war from 1870 to 1873, [1] with the two patron deities are actually based on two real persons of Sheng Meng Li (Kapitan of ...
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社, Itsukushima-jinja) is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii. [1] It is in the city of Hatsukaichi , in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan , accessible from the mainland by ferry at Miyajimaguchi Station .