The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how India prepared—and what happens once it's all over.

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The 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, running from 13 January to 26 February, is expected to draw around 400 million pilgrims, making it one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. open image in gallery ...

Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Over the next six weeks, a staggering 400 ...

Every act at Kumbh Mela carries deep spiritual significance, from the lighting of ritual fires to the floating of clay lamps (diyas). Helicopters shower rose petals on the devotees to welcome them.

When I heard that friends were going to Prayagaraj for the Kumbh Mela in January 2025, my wife Malti and I immediately seized the opportunity to go with them for a most unusual experience and the ...

The lost-and-found center is part of a huge temporary infrastructure for the Kumbh Mela. Image Sushil Kumar, a police constable, making a call to a relative of a lost pilgrim.

The Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest spiritual gathering, ended on Wednesday. Over six weeks, more than 400 million people visited the Indian city of Prayagraj to bathe at the confluence of ...

Authorities say at least 30 people have died and a further 60 were injured in a crowd crush at the massive Kumbh Mela festival. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered his condolences to ...

IMAGE: A devotee carries his mother during the Maha Kumbh Mela a day after the deadly stampede in Prayagraj, January 30, 2025. Photograph: Sharafat Ali/Reuters Following the stampede at the Maha ...

The Kumbh Mela’s timing is determined by astrology, with the dates aligning to moments when celestial bodies like Jupiter, Saturn, and the moon are in auspicious alignments.