Texts are valuable tools to reconstruct ancient religious landscapes; especially in regions with very sparse data like Bactria-Sogdiana, textual sources and epigraphy can provide insight into religious spaces. For instance, two different documents preserve information about the establishment of sacred groves by Greek settlers in Central Asia. The first grove was located in the village of the Branchidae, who were settled in the region during the Achaemenid rule. This grove was likely a reconstruction of the one found in Didyma, the famous oracle near Miletus. The second grove is mentioned in the so-called Kuliab inscription, in which a grove of Zeus is mentioned. The occurrence of this religious space in two different locations and times brings up new questions. Do they reflect an important aspect of Greek (re)construction of their own religious landscape in that faraway land? Or are they to be understood as the appropriation and the resignification of local religious spaces by the newcomers? In this paper, I use these two cases of study to analyse and understand the establishment of religious landscapes in colonial contexts, and the interaction within them between locals and newcomers.