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The Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, India is a Hindu temple, that was inaugurated [4] on 22 January 2024 after a prana pratishtha (consecration) ceremony. [5] [4] In Hindu tradition, this temple is believed to be located at an ancient pilgrimage site of Ram Janmabhoomi, the birthplace of Rama, a principal deity of Hinduism.
In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a very long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred area or shrine of importance to innate faith . Members of every major religion participate in pilgrimages.
These Hindu pilgrimage sites can be divided into dhams, kumbhs, jyotirlingas, devi sites etc. Every category has got its own significance. It is believed that visiting char dhams help one to attain salvation. There are four dhams and twelve jyotirlings along with 51 shakti Peeths in India.
The Char Dham (Hindi: चारधाम, romanized: Cārdhām transl. the four abodes), or the Chatur Dhama (Sanskrit: चतुर्धाम, romanized: Caturdhāma), [1] is a set of four Hindu pilgrimage sites in India, [2] consisting of Badrinath, Dwarka, Puri and Rameswaram.
Today, the kanwar pilgrimage to Haridwar in particular has grown to be India's largest annual religious gathering, with an estimated 30 million devotees in the 2023 and 2024 events. The devotees come from the surrounding states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Bihar and some from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Madhya ...
The project aims to connect four Hindu pilgrimage sites in the mountains through an 890km stretch of roads at a total cost of approximately Rs 125bn ($1.5bn or £1.2bn).
Pages in category "Hindu pilgrimage sites in India" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 223 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The two-month Hindu pilgrimage, currently underway, draws hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims from across India. The routes leading to the cave shrine are guarded by tens of thousands of soldiers.