Sheykh Hoseynlu

Coordinates: 38°56′56″N 46°49′45″E / 38.94889°N 46.82917°E / 38.94889; 46.82917^[1]

Sheykh Hoseynloo in June 2011.

Sheykh Hoseynlu (شيخ حسينلو, also Romanized as Sheykh Ḩoseynlū; also known as Shaikh Husain, Sheykh Ḩasanlū, Sheykh Ḩoseyn, and Shikhuseyn)^[2] is a village in Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District, Minjavan District, Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Before the Islamic Revolution village had a population of 360.^[3] At the 2006 census, its population was 131, in 34 families.^[4]

The inhabitants are followers of Yarsan religion. A prominent spiritual leader of the religion, Ali Alipour (D. 1991) lived most of his life in Sheykh Hoseynloo. He was, perhaps, the only Iranian who spent time in a Germany concentration camp as a prisoner of war. The family of Azerbaijan's famous Ashik,Changiz Mehdipour are originally from Sheykh Hoseynloo.

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