Sulaiman Too Sacred Mountain - Epic Curiousity

Sulaiman Too Sacred Mountain

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Sulaiman Too Sacred Mountain

This sacred mountain looms over Osh, and for millenia has been a place of worship. There are many different caves dotting the mountain, each set up as a place of worship, and each of which is reputed to have a different spiritual or physical benefit, such as enhancing fertility or curing diseases. Veneration of the mountain existed in pre-Islamic times, and there are numerous sites with pterogylphs. The mountain is considered the best example of a Central Asian sacred mountain and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

For more informaiton, check out the UNESCO World Heritage writeup on the site here: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1230

Sulaiman Too, Gapar Aytiev, Osh, Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan (Directions)