Kumbh Mela Diaries
2025
The Maha Kumbh Mela is the world largest religious festival held in Prayagraj, India between mid-January and the end of February 2025. This Hindu pilgrimage gathering is connected to astrology and, more precisely, 2025 marked a full orbital revolution of Jupiter around the Sun. The 2025 edition was unique, since the constellation alignment seen was witnessed once in 144 years. More than 600 million people had taken a dip in the Sangam, the confluence of three rivers: the Ganges, Yamuna, and the mystical Saraswati. It is a very sacred place, and it is believed that taking a dip in it, particularly on special bathing dates, washes away people’s sins and provides them with moksha, or salvation.
Sangam Ghat - Prayagraj