kumbh mela

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 07:57:50 +0000

The world’s largest religious festival is on-going in northern India’s most populous states Uttar Pradesh. The fair is popularly known as Kumbh Mela. It is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which millions of Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river. The mass ritual bathing is held every 12 years in Prayagraj formerly known as Allahabad where the mythological river Saraswati is believed to merge with the sacred rivers Ganga and Yamuna. Bathing at the holy confluence of these rivers is thought to cleanse a person of all their sins.

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