Sentences with phrase «millions of pilgrims»

Set along the banks of the holy Ganges River and considered to be India's spiritual home, millions of pilgrims descend on Varanasi every year.

Millions of pilgrims pour into the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala for the peak of commemorations for Ashura today, the most important day in the Shiite calendar, with security tight following mass - casualty attacks in previous years.

During this time of the year, as I mentioned, millions of pilgrims would make the journey up to Jerusalem for Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Today, Lourdes attracts millions of pilgrims annually — to our Medieval ancestors it was unknown.

Once every 12 years, tens of millions of pilgrims stream to the small northern city of Allahabad from across India for the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Grand Pitcher Festival, at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet with a third, mythical river.

Not exact matches

We have 2 million Muslim pilgrims visiting every year to do the Hajj» — the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca — «and they are no trouble.

World Youth Day organizers say the final tab for the trip could cost as much as 350 million reals ($ 156 million) with pilgrims picking up 70 percent of the tab.

Pope Francis will preside over a special ceremony that is expected to draw upwards of a million pilgrims, who will gather in St. Peter's Square to witness Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII enter the celestial community of Catholic saints.

An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, but with the rising threat of climate change, there are now calls for both pilgrims and authorities in Mecca to reduce the environmental damage wrought by this yearly influx of travelers.

(CNN)- An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, said to be the largest annual gathering of people in the world.

A railroad station crush left 36 people dead Sunday among tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims flocking to the banks of the Ganges River for the world's largest religious gathering, authorities reported.

It draws up to 10 million pilgrims, who believe that bathing in the water absolves them of sins.

An estimated one million seekers were down there for the annual festival of the Feast of Weeks, one million pilgrims choking the streets designed to accommodate fifty thousand, seekers after shalom, God's wholeness and peace.

With the annual Hajj pilgrimage having officially started, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced the arrival of 2 million pilgrims to the Holy City of Makkah.

Even the famed Lourdes, with over 1 million visitors annually, boasts only a few dozen «miracle cures» ever, according to the Vatican — leaving vast numbers of pilgrims to cope otherwise with cancer and other serious illnesses.

The Imam Reza shrine (Persian: حرم امام رضا) in Mashhad, Iran is a complex which contains the mausoleum of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of Millions of black - clad Shia pilgrims are converging on the holy city of Kerbala for the Arbaeen religious commemoration, the largest annual gathering of

Document the temple's elegant architecture and wander through surrounding courtyards to snap portraits of some of the several million pilgrims who visit each year.

This exhibition presents a compelling portrait of the massive urban redevelopment now underway and its effects on residents and the millions of hajj pilgrims who travel there every year.

Now, starting April 13, art pilgrims will find the institution vastly changed as the result of a 10 - year, $ 500 million renovation project — one that both modernized the museum, including the creation of a 24,000 - square - foot, Turbine Hall - sized public space (a current must - have for art capitals), and brought it back to its original grandeur by stripping away ill - considered additions and ornaments incurred over the years.

Other Middle Eastern cities could approach the lethal threshold, including the Saudi holy city of Mecca, a destination for millions of Muslim pilgrims every year, according to the report in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Climate Change.