(14 Jan 2025)
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Prayagraj, India – 14 January 2025
1. Various of thousands of people taking part in Maha Kumbh festival
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Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India have flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, which is being touted as the world’s largest religious gathering.
Over about the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims will gather at the confluence of three sacred rivers — the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati — where they will take part in elaborate rituals, hoping to begin a journey to achieve Hindu philosophy’s ultimate goal: the release from the cycle of rebirth.
At least 400 million people — more than the population of the United States — are expected in Prayagraj over the next 45 days, according to officials.
That is around 200 times the 2 million pilgrims that arrived in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year.
The festival is a big test for Indian authorities to showcase the Hindu religion, tourism and crowd management.
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