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Weekly Update from Aigine CRC
Project monitoring at Aigine continues: this week, the Aigine CRC team visited the workshop of craftswoman Gulmira Kutueva and met with project participants and artisans…
Weekly Update from Aigine CRC
Project Monitoring Meetings: This week, Aigine Cultural Research Center continued its series of project monitoring meetings with participants of successfully completed initiatives. Representatives shared project…
Weekly Update from Aigine CRC
Do traditional knowledge holders need AI? AI is becoming part of everyday life. But how can it affect the preservation and transmission of traditional knowledge?…
Weekly Update from Aigine CRC
Working Meetings: This week, the Aigine CRC team held a series of online meetings with partners from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, as well as a representative…
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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.

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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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