the same tradition, Sinjar is more than a mountain. The highest peak in a hundred-kilometer range, for centuries it has been a sanctuary for the persecuted and the oppressed. Countless people have taken refuge in its small caves and craggy gulleys. At its base nestles the Sharfadin Temple, eight hundred years old, built of pale yellow stone with two cones atop its roof. Every inch of this landscape is holy to the Yazidi faith.
