Uttar Pradesh, a northern Indian state, is home to numerous temples and sacred sites. With prominent pilgrimage destinations ...

Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Goddess Saraswati is honored on Shukla Navami for bestowing wisdom, learning, and artistic skills. Devotees perform rituals, ...

Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

Tucked away on a residential street in Southwest Broward County lies a holy structure of architectural grandeur that looks as if it were uprooted straight from India and transplanted to South ...

The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, ...

This doesn’t imply, however, that a religious search should begin at random. Rather, you should start the way you would in ...

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The world's largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials ...

Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...