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Priest chanting holy mantras during Ganpati sthapana. While devotees offer prayer to Lord Ganesh during Ganesh Chaturthi in Delhi....

Maharashtra·festival · ceremony

Devotees offer prayer and seek blessings from Lord Ganesha. While the Hindu priest chant holy mantras and perform holy rituals during Gnaesh Chaturthi.....

Maharashtra·festival · ceremony

Devotees offer garland, garments, ornaments etc. to Lord Ganesh during Ganesh Chaturthi celebration. While devotees offer prayer and seek blessings from Lord Ganesh....

Maharashtra·ceremony · festival

Devotees performing aarti during Ganesh Chaturthi. One can see an old woman blowing shankh and devotees sing aarti songs....

festival · ceremony

Devotees offering prayer and seek blessings from Lord Ganesha during Ganesh Chaturthi in Delhi.....

festival · ceremony

Devotees offer prayer to Lord Ganesh during Ganesh Chaturthi Celebration in Delhi...... The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is celebrated with much pomp and grandeur in the western part of India, but Delhi with its mixed culture gears up for the…

Maharashtra·festival · ceremony

Devotees offer prayer and seek blessings from Lord Ganesh during Ganesh Chaturthi, while the priest chants holy mantras....

festival · ceremony

Aarti performed by a Marathi family during Ganesh Chaturthi in Delhi...... The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is celebrated with much pomp and grandeur in the western part of India, but Delhi with its mixed culture gears up for the celebration.

Maharashtra·ceremony · festival

Devotees offering aarti during Ganesh Chaturthi. While the priest chant holy mantras.... The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is celebrated with much pomp and grandeur in the western part of India, but Delhi with its mixed culture gears up for the…

festival · ceremony

Aarti performed by a Marathi family during Ganesh Chaturthi in Delhi...... The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is celebrated with much pomp and grandeur in the western part of India, but Delhi with its mixed culture gears up for the celebration.

West Bengal·ceremony · festival

The traditional huge idols of Durga maa are the specialty of some clubs that organize Durga puja in Kolkata. Durga Puja or Sharadotsav is an annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga.

Maharashtra·ceremony · festival

Durga Puja is widely celebrated in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal, where it is a five-day annual holiday.

festival · river

Devotees seek blessings and offer prayer to Lord Ganesh before the immersion at river Yamuna in Delhi. One can see devotees putting tilak and performing aarti to Lord Ganesh before the immersion.

festival · ceremony

People welcome Ganpati as priest performs 'Pran Pratishtha' rituals on occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi at Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi, India.

Maharashtra·festival · ceremony

Devotees performing aarti before Ganapati vasarjan.Ten days of religious festivities comes to an end, People of Jammu and Kashmir bid farewell to Lord Ganesha with the immersion of the Lord’s idols.

festival · ceremony

Ganesha Chaturthi celebration at Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi, India. Ganesha Chaturthi also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, is the Hindu festival celebrated on the birthday (re-birth) of Lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati.

river · festival

Hindu devotees load Durga and Ganesh idol in a mini truck for Durga Puja festival in Delhi, India. Artisans from different places are busy in making idols for the festival around the clock in around shops.

temple · ceremony

View of Shri Shri Ganesha Kartikeshwar Temple in Odisha, India. Ganesha, also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, is a widely worshipped deity in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal.

Maharashtra·ceremony · festival

Durga Puja also referred to as Durgotsava or Sharadotsav is an annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga.

temple · ceremony

View of Shri Shri Ganesha Kartikeshwar Temple in Odisha, India. Ganesha, also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, is a widely worshipped deity in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal.

Maharashtra·festival · ceremony

According to Hindu rituals people are worshiping the idol of Lord Ganesh offering garlands and doing last minute arti for Visarjan.

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Devotees performs aarti before the immersion of Lord Ganesha idols at the bank of Yamuna river in Delhi. The entire country celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi with great zeal and gaiety.

Maharashtra·ceremony · flowers

On the ghats of Yamuna river people participated on the immersion of Ganesh on this Ganesh Chaturthi. Two to three weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, artistic clay models of Lord Ganesha are made for sale by specially skilled artisans.