In this article I argue that domestic space has to be theorized as an important center of religious practice and socio-political activism. Born-again and devout Muslim women in the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan) use domestic space as an important sacred place for religious observance and socialization equal to the mosques. This sacred place has a special meaning for born-again and devout Muslims as it carries a promise of personal and social change. In the context of religious and political persecution by the Uzbek state, domestic space is experienced as a politically safe place and as a critically important site of socio-political criticism and activism, as some intimate in-house discussions about religious, political, and social oppression take a form of public protest on the streets.Keywords Islam . House . Socio-political activism . Muslim . Uzbekistan . The state ...we have a desire to go to the mosques, but in Uzbekistan only men go there. We [women] are not very upset because the Qur'an says that one needs to read within a group and we do just that at our meetings (interview, 2002).Ugar used to be a street boy, you know, he was drinking, fighting, and smoking. In 1994 something happened, I do not know what, and he began to read namoz [ritual prayer], 1 study Arabic, and his life has changed, one hundred per cent. But he suffered because of his faith. He was set up by the Cont