Learn about the 8 best places to visit in Prayagraj during the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, including Triveni Sangam, Anand Bhavan, and many other places of interest.

The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj combines spirituality and astrology, beginning when Jupiter enters Aquarius and the Sun transitions into Aries.

Over the coming 45 days, an estimated 400 million Hindus are expected to come together for Maha Kumbh Mela. The festival is held every 12 years but the "Maha" or grand Kumbh Mela takes place only every 144 years, "marking the 12th Kumbh Mela and a special celestial alignment of the sun, moon and Jupiter", said The Guardian.

The Maha Kumbh festival, which began on January 13, has seen a record number of devotees, with over 7 crore taking a dip in the Sangam. On Thursday alone, over 30 lakh devotees bathed.

India began on Monday its Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, which is expected to draw more than 400 million visitors to the northern city of Prayagraj over six weeks, making for the largest gathering of humanity in the world.

As the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 unfolds in Prayagraj, memories of my experience at Ujjain’s Simhasth Kumbh Mela in 2016 resurface. Battling scorching heat, I toured akhadas, met revered spiritual leaders,

Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh will be on a unique mix of faith, tradition and human raw and unrefined. This great event is for pilgrims, explorers and hungry souls to fulfill their desires making a really great experience.

Millions of Hindu pilgrims gathered on Tuesday at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Sarasvati rivers to take part in the first holy bath of the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering.