Abstract
The article considers the condition of regional pilgrimage of Muslims of Turkestan at the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. It's characterized the nomadic and settled people of the region, the main objects of pilgrimage is analyzed the main aspects of religious pilgrimage in Turkestan. Research objective is – to characterize religious pilgrimage in Turkestan, to show the real contents, and as a place and a role in life of the Muslim people. The subject of this work can be considered low-studied – the clerical thought didn’t investigate those religious “roots” which it denies. The secular science was not engaged in a subject too. Relevance of research is multiplied by its demand today. As a result of research the conclusion is drawn that inhabitants of Turkestan, in are specified the period, is identified as Muslims, read sacred places of paganism and made to them pilgrimage. Looking a sharia ban nomads read “sacred” which they considered Islamic. Research will be demanded to researchers of Central Asia. It will be useful by preparation in higher education institutions of lecture courses on a modern history, ethnology, and religious studies.