[heartwood]

I didn’t know Kyrgyzstan was Christian before it became Islamic.

[Psalm 73]

"I didn’t know Kyrgyzstan was Christian before it became Islamic."

Christianity preceded Islam by about 800 years.

[FarCenter]

The Nestorian Church spread east along the Silk Road to China.

The Church of the East (also known as the Nestorian Church) historically had a presence in China during two periods: first from the 7th through the 10th century in the Tang dynasty, when it was known as Jingjiao (Chinese: 景教; pinyin: Jǐngjiào; Wade–Giles: Ching3-chiao4; lit. ‘Luminous Religion’), and later during the Yuan dynasty in the 13th and 14th centuries, when it was described alongside other foreign religions like Catholicism and possibly Manichaeism as Yelikewen jiao (Chinese: 也里可溫教; pinyin: Yělǐkěwēn jiào).

The Xi’an Stele, erected in Chang’an 781.
After centuries of hiatus, the first Assyrian Church of the East Divine Liturgy was celebrated in China in 2010.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_East_in_China