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A mosque in Tokmok. Islam is the main religion in Kyrgyzstan.. Islam is the main religion in Kyrgyzstan and the constitution guarantees freedom of religion.. Kyrgyzstan is a multicultural and multi-religious country with Islam, Buddhism, BaháΚΌí, Christianity (including Russian Orthodox Church, Roman Catholicism, Seventh-day Adventist Church and Jehovah's Witnesses), Judaism, and other ...
Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has been mentioned in this region since the 14th century, mainly in the territory of today’s Kazakhstan. The Roman Catholic missionaries came to Kyrgyzstan mainly from China, until the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. From 1918 to 1930, the area of Kyrgyzstan came under the parish of Tashkent.
The vast majority of people in Kyrgyzstan are Muslims; as of 2020, 90% of the country's population were followers of Islam. [1][2] Muslims in Kyrgyzstan are generally of the Sunni branch, mostly of the Hanafi school, which entered the region during the eighth century. [3] Most Kyrgyz Muslims practice their religion in a specific way influenced ...
Overview. Kyrgyzstan's population increased from 2.1 million to 4.8 million between the censuses of 1959 and 1999. [ 2 ] Official estimates set the population at 6,389,500 in 2019. [ 1 ] Of those, 34.4% are under the age of 15 and 6.2% are over the age of 65. The country is rural: only about one-third of Kyrgyzstan's population live in urban areas.
[1] [2] Most central Asians belong to religions which were introduced to the area within the last 1,500 years, such as Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, Ismaili Islam, Tengriism and Syriac Christianity (mostly East Syriac). [3] Buddhism, however, was introduced to Central Asia over 2,200 years ago, and Zoroastrianism, over 2,500 years ago. [4]
Kyrgyz are the only Turkic people native to Pakistan. The Kyrgyz in Pakistan live mostly in the north, primarily Chitral, where Kyrgyz is the only Turkic language spoken in Pakistan. [89] There are only a few thousand left, and many have assimilated with Pashtun or the Kho. [90] They used to dominate the region of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Kyrgyzstan, [a] officially the Kyrgyz Republic, [b] [13] is a landlocked country in eastern Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the capital and largest city . Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north , Uzbekistan to the west , Tajikistan to the south , and China to the east and southeast .
The culture of Kyrgyzstan has a wide mix of ethnic groups and cultures, with the Kyrgyz being the majority group. It is generally considered that there are 40 Kyrgyz clans, symbolized by the 40-rayed yellow sun in the center of the flag. The red lines inside the sun visualise the crown of a yurt, the traditional dwelling of nomadic farmers ...