Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple
The Daily Beast 21 Aug 2014 photos: Inside the Yezidi Temple 
https://kdp.se/yazidi2.pdf

The following informative and enjoyable description of a visit to Lalish/Lalesh was received in response to the previous bulletin. Not too far from Erbil, Lalesh is a very pleasant and interesting destination point. About a 2-hour non-stop drive.
But along the way to Lalesh are a four other places worth visiting:  Mar Matti (St. Matthew) Monastery, a massive complex high up on the side of Maqlub mountain that dates from the 4th century.  On the other side in the plain down below is where Greek-Macedonian Alexander (the Great) defeated Persian King Darius III in 331 BC in the Battle of Gaugamela. The battle is well- portrayed in the film 'Alexander' with Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie.  Before reaching Lalesh there are impressive Assyrian rock sculptures at Khennis at the headwaters of a long canal  that ran over the oldest aqueduct in the world at Jerwan constructed by Sennecherib in 700 BC. All in a day.

An academic paper on the Yezidis is also included