Place

Identity formation also occurs around the places we frequent. Particularly important places can include the homes we live in, the places where we worship and remember, and the places that we consider unique to our culture.

This site focuses mostly on these three types of places. However, the area around us, the atmosphere and architecture we are accustomed to, the geography we are used to seeing in the distance, and much more can also factor into this. These wider categories can be on other members of the SRAS Family of Sites.

Filter the below articles for: Slavic, Turkic, Caucasian, Baltics, or other cultures.

Exploring Bishkek’s Mosques

The Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek today features mosques scattered throughout its streets. Amazingly, nearly all of these mosques were constructed after the Kyrgyz Republic declared independence in 1991. The city was constructed mostly by Tsarist Russia and the USSR, neither of which encouraged the construction of mosques. The construction boom in Bishkek is testament to […]

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