The Muslim geographers Ibn Hawqal and Al-Istakhri both mention a Christian monastery in the mountains near Samarkand which has been identified with the town of Urgut, Uzbekistan. A bronze censer unearthed in Urgut in 1916 and Syriac inscriptions and inscribed crosses discovered on a nearby cliff in 1920 supplied solid evidence of a forgotten Christian past in the area. After more than a decade of work, the East Sogdian Archaeological Expedition, led by Alexei Savchenko, has recently uncovered the remains of the monastery reported by the geographers and has discovered additional inscriptions in several caves in the mountains above the monastery location. Having viewed the cliff inscriptions initially in 2003, prior to the excavation of the monastery, the author went back to the area with Alexei Savchenko in September 2009 to re-photograph and transcribe all the cliff and cave inscriptions previously noted by the Archaeological Expedition. In the process, new inscriptions were discovered and readings of some previously documented inscriptions were revised, including some of the few that have been published so far. The author is currently preparing an edition and translation of all the Urgut inscriptions. This paper will give examples of the inscriptions and connect them with archaeological data from the monastery site, the contemporaneous Christian material from the Turfan Collection and information from Syriac, Muslim and other relevant literary sources, in order to build up a tentative profile of the Christian monastic community which inhabited the Urgut site from the 8th/9th century up to the 13th century. What do the data tell us about the character of Christianity in Sogdiana / Mawara'l-nahr during a time when the inhabitants witnessed the arrival of the Muslim Arabs and then the successive rule of the Samanids, Qarakhanids, Seljuks, Qarakhitai, Khwarezmshahs and Mongols? To what extent did the community reflect its roots in the Syriac heartland of Mesopotamia and to what extent was it influenced by the surrounding Perso-Turkic culture? Regretably, due to the subject matter, it will not be possible to draw conclusions relevant to the conference theme of "Gender Roles, Sexual Identity and Family Dynamics." : )