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Weekly review of Aigine CRC Activities
🎶 Report Concert: On November 11, the first of two planned report concerts within the project to integrate Koñur Ün into orchestral sound took place…
Weekly review of Aigine CRC Activities
📰 Last week, 100 years after the first issue of the newspaper Erkin-Too, the Aigine Cultural Research Center began digitizing its early editions. This process…
Weekly review of Aigine CRC Activities
🏞️ The archaeologist for the Murdash Bashy Petroglyphs Digitization and Documentation Project, Saltanat Alisher kyzy, presented last week at an international conference celebrating the anniversary…
Weekly review of Aigine CRC Activities
🏞️ Local Research: In early October, the Aigine CRC team conducted training sessions for students in the villages of Kyzyl-Bulak, Uchkun, and Okhna in Kadamjay…

Sacred Geography of Kyrgyzstan


The Sacred Geography of Kyrgyzstan is a representation of both natural and cultural phenomena. This is a network of sacred sites – springs, caves, mountains, mausoleums, lakes, tombs and trees – that people visit as pilgrims. An essential part of any pilgrimage practice is performance of rituals and ceremonies, which turns territories covered by sacred sites into a ritualized land.

Our mission


Aigine Cultural Research Center (CRC) (which means “lucid”, “definite”) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in May 2004 at the initiative of Gulnara Aitpaeva, Doctor of Philology, with the participation of Aida Alymbaeva and Mukaram Toktogulova, Candidate of Philology.


Aigine CRC works in the field of traditional knowledge, education and social science. The center conducts spiritual, educational and scientific activities based on external grants and self-financing. These activities are directed at preserving, developing and integrating traditional wisdom with contemporary life. Aigine CRC aims to incorporate the positive potential of traditional wisdom in decision-making at all levels of public and political life.


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