The Yazidi population in Georgia has been dwindling since the 1990s , mostly due to economic migration to Russia and the West . According to a census carried out in 1989 , there were over 30,000 Yazidis in Georgia ; according to the 2002 census , however , only around 18,000 Yazidis remained in Georgia . However , by other estimates , the community fell from around 30,000 people to fewer than 5,000 during the 1990s . Today they number as little 6,000 by some estimates , including recent refugees from Sinjar in Iraq , who fled to Georgia following persecution by ISIL . On 16 June 2015 , Yazidis celebrated the opening of a temple and a cultural centre named after Sultan Ezid in Varketili , a suburb of Tbilisi . This is the third such temple in the world after those in Iraqi Kurdistan and Armenia
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