CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Yerevan, Armenia – Armenia may be best known for its medieval-era monasteries, crumbling hilltop churches that feature in postcards and travel posters. But as of this fall, the small, landlocked nation of three million has a new religious landmark: the world’s largest Yazidi temple – Quba Mere Diwane.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, the largest Yazidi Temple in the world is called Quba Mere Diwane and it is located in Armenia’s Armavir region in Aknalich village.

Detailed explanation-3: -Malak Taus is considered God’s alter ego, inseparable from Him, and to that extent Yazidism is monotheistic. Yazidis pray to Malak Taus five times a day. His other name is Shaytan, which is Arabic for devil, and this has led to the Yazidis being mislabelled as “devil-worshippers".

Detailed explanation-4: -The Yezidis is one of many religious minorities in Iraq. They follow Yezidism, a religion combining elements from, among others, Christianity and Islam. At the centre is the teaching about a fallen angel who is forgiven by God and set to govern the Earth in God’s place.

Detailed explanation-5: -However, in the early 12th century CE, the arrival of one man in the Kurdish Mountains would change the fate of the Kurds forever, the man who is credited by scholars and Yazidis as the founder of Yazidism itself: Sheikh ‘Adi.