Allahabad (India) Reviews
Description:City: Allahabad / Country: India / World Region: Asia / City in northern India, in Uttar Pradesh State, capital of the ... more
Allahabad (India) ... Allahabad District, at the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganges rivers.Newest Review: ... the breaking point with the addition of an estimated ten million pilgrims who had come to bathe in the Ganges. Hardwar is a town about a hundred miles north of Delhi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The center of the pilgrimage in Hardwar is a large camp across the Ganges River from the main ghat. Prominent among the religious groups that regularly return to the Kumbh every twelve years ... more
... are those from renunciant communities. On the main bathing day they lead pilgrims in the millions in a parade from the camp down to the ghat to bathe in the Ganges. The goal of the bathers at the Hardwar Kumbh Mela is a ghat of the Ganges known as the B...moreCustomer Allahabad (India) Reviews (1)
by - written on 12/01/01, updated on 15/01/01
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I have scoured the net to bring as much information together of this amazing festivel. Hope this will be helpful On 6 February 1989 an estimated fifteen million pilgrims traveled to Allahabad in India on the occasion of the most recent full Kumbh Mela there. According to The Guiness Book of Records, this was the "greatest recorded number of human beings assembled with a common purpose" in history. The Kumbh Mela is held by turns in four different cities in India: Allahabad, Hardwar, Ujjain, and Nasik. The festival is conducted in each of these cities every dozen years or so. On 14 April 1998 the population of Hardwar in North India swelled to the ... Read the complete review
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