Baba Sheikh's corpse bid farewell in Sheikhan

The corpse of Baba Sheikh Khartu Ismail is bid farewell in Sheikhan cemetery in Başûr Kurdistan.

Baba Sheikh's corpse bid farewell in Sheikhan
2 October, 2020   08:25
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Sheikh Khartu Hajji Ismail, the supreme reference of the Yazidi religion and the Head of the Spiritual Council died on Thursday evening in a hospital in Hewlêr in Başûr Kurdistan after he was transferred to it after a health problem, at the age of 87.

His corpse is buried in the Sheikhan province cemetery of Duhok governorate, according to a special religious ceremony and in the presence of many Yazidi clerics and other religions in Başûr Kurdistan and Iraq.