The event - held once every 12 years - starts on Monday and over the next six weeks, the devout will bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges river with the Yamuna river and the ...

The festival that attracts over 400 million people takes place where Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers meet.

One of the world's largest religious festivals starts today in India. The Kumbh Mela only happens every 12 years and more ...

Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims are taking holy dips in sacred rivers in the first major bathing day of the Maha Kumbh ...

Hindu holy men with their bodies smeared with ash stand beside ... For a few days it becomes the most populous city in the world where people gather and wade into the Ganges River to be cleansed of ...

The holy festival of Maha Kumbh Mela is celebrated once every 12 years, with devotees taking a dip in the waters where the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers merge.

India's Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival, began Monday, January 13, as millions of Hindu devotees gathered along the Ganges River. The festival, held every 12 years, is one of ...

More than 400 million Hindu pilgrims are expected to participate ... s spiritual journey to wash away their sins in the Ganges River. Ramesh Chandra promised his wife, Manju, on their wedding ...

Hindus believe that the mythical Saraswati river once flowed from the Himalayas through Prayagraj, meeting there with the ...

the devout will bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges river with the Yamuna river and the mythical Saraswati. Hindus believe that taking a dip in the sacred river will ...