The given research has an interdisciplinary character, as it covers a wide range of issues
related to various sciences: geography, culture, philosophical anthropology. The purpose of
the study is to justify the author's classification scheme of sacred landscapes. In the research
work a systematic approach to the study of sacred landscapes as a holistic organized
territorial system and a set of methods, in particular: structural-logical generalization and
system analysis, comparative-geographical, historical-geographical was used This article
examines the meaning of the notion of sacred landscape, which in its content is wider than
the religious landscape and is treated as a natural, natural-anthropogenic, anthropogenic
system, associated with certain life symbols, myths, significant events, religious feelings, is
extremely valuable to a person or group of people and requires special treatment and
protection. The existing scientific experience concerning classification of religious territories
and objects is generalized and the classification scheme of sacred landscapes was outlined on
the following grounds: level of organization (individual, local, regional, national, global),
time variability (paleocultural, historical and cultural), genesis (natural and natural-
anthropogenic, anthropogenic). The proposed classification scheme is based on the ranking of
the signs of territorial systems and their sacral components (territories and objects), which
were determined due to the peculiarities of the structure, peculiarity of evolutionary
development and functional purpose
