Bog'iston

Bogiston, the “land of gardens”, lies in the Pskem valley among the western Tian Shan mountains. The village is associated with a line of Sufi teachers headed by Sheikh Umar Bogistoni, who died in 1291. His son Khavandi Tahur and the later Naqshbandi master Ubayd Allah Ahrar belonged to the same spiritual family. Shrines in the valley and on the surrounding slopes made this mountain country a place of pilgrimage as well as orchards and settlements.