Yazidi devotees take part in an annual religious olive-pressing tradition at the Lalish temple in a valley near the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on March 30, 2023. - More than 300 Yazidi volunteers annually participate in picking and squeezing olives from the Lalish temple grove. The oil is used to daily light the Temple's 365 sacred lamps, numbered to the days of the year, as well as for other religious occasions such as the Yazidi New Year. (Photo by Ismael ADNAN / AFP)

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Olive-pressing tradition at a Yazidi temple - in pictures

Each year more than 300 Yazidi volunteers pick and squeeze olives from the Lalish temple grove, in Iraq

The National

April 01, 2023

Updated: April 01, 2023, 5:46 AM