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2. Ganga Talao - Wikipedia

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   Ganga Talao (commonly known as Grand Bassin) is a crater lake situated in a secluded mountain area in the district of Savanne, deep in the heart of Mauritius. It is about 550 m (1,800 ft) above sea level. It is considered the most sacred Hindu place in Mauritius. The first group of pilgrims to Ganga Talao were from the village of Triolet and ...

3. Mangal Mahadev - Wikipedia

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   Shiva. Mangal Mahadev is a 33 m (108 ft) tall sculpture of the Hindu god Shiva standing with his Trishula (trident) at the entrance of Ganga Talao (Grand Bassin), a crater lake situated in the district of Savanne district, Mauritius. [1] It is a replica of the Shiva statue in Sursagar lake in Vadodara, Gujarat in India and is the tallest statue ...

4. Triolet, Mauritius - Wikipedia

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   They discovered the Ganga Talao, also known as the Grand-Bassin (literally: the big lake). With time, this has given a major significance to the Mahashivratri festival on the island and people from several Hindu Traditions on the island annually converge to this sacred river, the local equivalent of the Ganges River .

5. Hinduism in Mauritius - Wikipedia

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   Hinduism is the largest religion in Mauritius, with Hindus representing approximately 48.5% of the population in 2011. [4][5] Mauritius is the only country in Africa where Hinduism is the most practiced religion and percentage wise ranks third in the world after Nepal and India.

6. Maheswarnath Mandir - Wikipedia

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   The temple is famous for its association with the first pilgrimage to Ganga Talao, the sacred lake found in the center of Mauritius. The temple is the biggest and one of the oldest Hindu temples on the island along with the Kovil at Bon Espoir Piton (1830), Sinatambou Kovil at Terre Rouge (1850), Murugan Kovil at Clemencia (1856), the Shivala ...

7. The man turning jet planes into cool houses

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   The first plane to be converted was the US-built 1950s DC-6, which in a previous life flew freight and fuel to remote villages around Alaska. Now it’s a two-bed, one-bath stay, with a fire pit ...

8. Religion in Mauritius - Wikipedia

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   Statue of Hindu Goddess Durga at Ganga Talao.. Mauritius is a religiously diverse nation, with Hinduism being the most widely professed faith. [2] According to the 2022 census conducted by Statistics Mauritius, 47.87% of the Mauritian population follows Hinduism, followed by Christianity (32.29%), out of which 24.94% are Catholic, Islam (18.24%) out of which 1.21% are Bangladeshi nationals [3 ...

9. Pharmacist pleads no contest to involuntary manslaughter in ...

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   Associated Press. August 22, 2024 at 7:13 AM. HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A Massachusetts pharmacist charged with murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents from a 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak is ...