Very often, the cult attribute defined the development of a society, state and peoples. Being one of the important spiritual aspects, the cult attribute was personified in material objects and many of them have been unique and inimitable, enigmatic and beautiful creations of a human creature, nature or the universe. The territory where Kyrghyzstan is located has not been subjected to the dominance of the ancient giant pyramids, palaces and other widely known monumental cult buildings. It has its own history with its special features.

The ancient cult buildings on territory of the modern Kyrghyzstan are poorly studied though some of them are quite broadly developed. Firstly they are the wide-spread on-rock drawings - pietroglyphics. The belief that pietroglyphics are the images of the animals that people hunted for as well as the scenes from their life is out of date now. The modern notion of pietroglyphics is based on that this is a special sign system of a folk without a system of writing who have coded their own mythological beliefs about the surrounding world that they admired.

Pietroglyphics are varied in age: from several hundred millenniums B.C. to VI-VIII centuries A.C. One of the most ancient cult buildings are those named "tashkoro". Buildings of this kind are known in the north Europe under name "krohlems".

Spatially these buildings are closely connected with pietroglyphics and sack-usun public graves. They are represented as natural stone ranges forming one or several circles. In the center of the circle there was placed a boulder in form of a pole. With the same boulders there were marked "gates" and "paths" connecting circles with each other. Many scientists consider these stone buildings to be the first monumental cult buildings on the territory of the modern Kyrghyzstan and draw a parallel with the well-known cult building Stoun-Henzh. There's no doubt about their attribute to sak-usun period. The age of these ancient sanctuaries forms probably about 5 thousand years. To the cult buildings of the turn of A.C. the ancient public graves- kattakombas should be primarily referred. Here is the description of one of such graves, Kenkoliskiy, executed by A.M Kamyshev... "In the embankment there is a sacrificial hearth, sometimes a ritual burial of a dog, sometimes a vessel, probably with cult food. A narrow trench leads to the depth of the bedrock.... in wood-alike loams there is a grave. The burials are twin as a rule: a man and a woman. It is absolutely obvious that after a men's death his wife or a concubine, bondwoman followed her "mister" to "the other world" The distinguishing feature of these "kenkol people" is the presence of the Mongol race's signs and the deformation of the skull..." A.N. Bershtam refers these graves to the hun period (I c. B.C. -I c. A.C..) The burial mounds of sak-usun period are of the similar construction.

The bloom of the cuIt buiIdings appeared at period of existence of the Great SiIk Way. This time the cities were built, in which various religions peacefully coexisted: Zoroastrism, Maniheyship, Nestorianship, Buddhism, Islam.

On mountain paths you can meet the memory of worshippers, they are "muttashes", Zoroastrian sanctuaries for fire worship They are the stone buildings, reminding "yurta" in their shape. These buildings were constructed along the paths and served as a place for believer's solitude for fulfilment of the religious ritual. About Nestorians and Manikheys there remind the funeral stones, "kayraks" with inscriptions and epitaphs, the remainders of Christian churches in ancient cities Suyab (Ak-Beshim), Navekat (Krasnorechenskoe towns hip) and Tersakent.

The famous prophet Mani (216-276 yy. A.C.) who had created the Nestorian Christianity has spread his teachings up to the Heavens Country (China). Manikheyship has become the official religion of Uigur (Turkic) kindom. On Catalon map of the XIV age, somewhere on the north coast of the Salty Lake (lssyk-Kul Lake) the re is expressed the priory of Nestorian Christians.

The remainders of Buddhist buildings are the temples and statues of Budda, they meet amongst rubble in all ancient cities. Taciturn images of the saint Budda and Budda's inscriptions "Ohm Manet Padme Hum" are dislodged on the rocks and on stones near mountain paths and passes. Some people consider that the well-known historical monument Tash-Rabat is also a Buddhist priory. There are almost no followers of this religious beliefs in Kyrghyzstan. Islam religion existed on a par with above-mentioned ones, about what witness the cult of the buildings of Buranin complex - a minaret and remainders of the medieval mosque (X-XII cc. A.C). With more Arabs' influence Islam has become the main religion in region.

Very interesting is the acceptance of Islam as the leading religion by Kyrghyzs who conducted the nomadic lifestyle in near-by past. The Kyrghyzs have never confessed any religion in the prejudice of nomadic lifestyle. Their be lief was based on principles of paganism and idolation. After Kyrghyzstan joined the Russian empire, the Christianity took a big influence upon Kyrghyzs. However, in view of that the Orthodox Christianity required strict observance of rites and construction of temples, it has not found understanding in nomads' life. Nomad won't build the temple in a clean field.

Meanwhile the preachers of hanafioyaism left the nomad a possibility to accept Islam, remaining herewith in captivity of pagan beliefs. The cult of the holy groves, mazars, mountains, springs, trees, mausoleums, buries and others allowed praying in any saint place. V.P. Pomazkin wrote: "There is a Moslem sect in Та las valley which worships to Manas as to a deity unless equal to Allah on power, but far exceeding all the other saints".

In times of Marxism and Leninism cult all the other religious beliefs were prohibited or dragged a miserable existence. After Kiyrghyzstan had gained its state independence, the vacuum which arose after oblivion of the Marxism-Leninism cult has been filled with both traditional and untraditional religions and sects. However Islam of Sunn it trend has become the predominant (state) religion. This has reflected in ubiquitous construction and reconstructions of the old mosques and madrassahs. Inter religious cooperation of Islam with the other religions gained a reflection in wide developed cult construction of the other religious cults, primarily orthodox (churches, prayer houses) alongside with Moslem cult construction.

The synopsis of the existing cult construction in the territory of the modern Kyrghyzstan indicates their changing variety depending on change of the state formation, customs and traditions of the people once inhabited it and living here at present times.