It is crucial to study the problem of upbringing the interreligious communication culture among students as the work of a specialist in any field of activity in modern society presupposes active interaction in a complex multicultural space, where religion still plays an important role, determining the peculiarities of people's behavior and communication, their needs and interests. Federal state educational standards of higher education determine the need for the development of a culture of interreligious communication among students in the framework of mastering certain competencies. When preparing specialists in the field of education attention should be paid to the development of skills to communicate with the student, taking into account cultural and religious characteristics. In particular, training of future teachers requires mastering the following general cultural competence: the ability to work in a team; to percept and tolerate social, cultural and personal differences". The main obstacle to the implementation of higher education institutions of the social order to bring up a culture of interreligious communication among university students is the lack of holistic concepts for solving this complex pedagogical problem, designed to meet modern requirements and socio-cultural conditions. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to analyze the peculiarities of the content of the culture of interreligious communication among university students as a personal and professional quality and the process of its upbringing. The article analyzes the content of professional competence of students with a developed culture of interreligious communication, identifies its structural components, defines the pedagogical conditions and directions of educational, scientific and other activities at the university on upbringing a culture of interreligious communication. The results of the study may be used in the elaboration of conception of upbringing the interreligious communication culture for modern student youth.

interreligious communication; student youth; competences; social and humanitarian subjects; emotional sphere.