Festivals and Religious Gatherings

Colorful gatherings during various religious festivals in India, featuring traditional attire and celebrations of culture.

India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, Harha. Women in colorful saris lined up. (Editorial Use Only)

India, Bihar, Gaya, A bereaved family grieve over the body of a deceased relative before its cremation.

Osh Bazaar, Osh, Kirghizstan, Central Asia, Asia

Bondas tribal people at the Ankudeli market. The Bonda, also known as Remo, are a Munda ethnic group who live in the isolated hill regions of the Malkangiri district of southwestern Odisha, near the junction of the three states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh. The tribe is one of the oldest and most primitive in mainland India; their culture has changed little for more than a thousand years. They are one of the 75 Primitive Tribal Groups identified by the Government of India.

Medha Patkar founder of Narmada Bachao Andolan and National Alliance of People Movements NO MR Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Sculptures at a Sculpture Workshop (for Varanasi) organised by Ministry of Railway (Govt of India) and the Ministry of Culture (Govt of India) in Nazrul Kala Kshetra at Agartala. Tripura, India.

Vendors offering jewellery at a market stall, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Small group of Hindu Brahmin Jagannath temple priests, heads shaved except for sikha (pigtail) indicating devotion to god, Puri, Odisha, India, Asia

India, State of Gujarat, Bhuj, Kutch, Ludiya village. Meghwal Marwari tribe. Traditional clothing and jewelry. (Editorial Use Only)

Kirtan at temple Jaipur, Rajastan, India

Free consultation in a village in India

Shilpgram, Rajasthan - November 9, 2019: Kalbelia folk music performed by musicians in traditional dress performed in Shilpgram cultural village near Udaipur

Govind Devji temple,near City Palace,Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Wall painting in Madurai, Tamil Nadu,South India,Asia

India, Ladakh, Leh. A group of Ladakhi women in front of a printshop with a big portrait of His Holiness Dalai Lama.

Apatani Tribal people, Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Asia Copyright: JanettexHill 1185-574

Holy place, Bihar, India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

India, State of Gujarat, Bhuj, Kutch, Ludiya village. Meghwal Marwari tribe. Traditional clothing and jewelry. (Editorial Use Only)

Clothes drying at Ganga Sagar Mela Copyright: xDebasishxBanerjee/DinodiaxPhotox

Jain Saint reading holy books ; India

Women at the Lakshmi Puja Festival celebrating Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of Wealth and Beauty, India

India: A young girl in a market in Mumbai, carrying a figure of the Hindu goddess Yellamma on her head to solicit donations. Yellamma is mostly worshipped in the South Indian state of Karnataka, her main temple being located in the town of Saundatti. Her worship is closely connected with prostitution, as many poor families dedicate their daughters to Yellamma, the girls - through a corrupt network of priests and pimps - often ending up as prostitutes.

Nepal, Kathmandu, Swayambhunath

A queue of people waiting for darshan, Palani, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Peru, Ayacucho. Holy Week. Preparando la "anda" della domenica di Pasqua

Woman dress as Hindu God, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Devotees assembled near the Pillaiyar shrine Ganpati temple at the foot of the hill Adivaram Palani, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Two Nepalese women, entrance to the Kumari Bahal, Durbar Square, Kathmandu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Asia

Kodava women making rice ball, Kadamputtu, during Huthri festival, Kodagu, Karnataka, India, Asia

Ajmer Sharif dargah, Rajasthan. Boy carrying offerings. India.

Ho tribes midwife with bowl of oil Chakradharpur Jharkhand India NO MR Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Devotees staying in tents, as they arrives to see, consecration ceremony of the Ram temple, in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India on 22 January 2024

Young Indian women wearing traditional saris carrying long bamboo poles on their heads with a seat for pilgrims climbing the steps to the temple complex, Tempelberg Shatrunjaya, Palitana, Gujarat, India, Asia

Kirtan at temple Jaipur, Rajastan, India

A Lamu woman demonstrates the use of the shiraa, a tent like cloth held up with two sticks, which obscured the face and body of a woman when she ventured outside her home one hundred years ago. Situated 150 miles north -northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD.

Woman at temple with Linga worship on full moon day, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India

Procession of female Buddhist devotees with offerings at the sacred Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kandy, Sri Lanka, Asia

Training session at Ralegan Siddhi near Pune ; Maharashtra ; India

Crystal energy practitioners, New Delhi, India

Varanasi, formerly Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India

Guardians of the volcano, Merapi, Yogyakarta region, island of Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Philippines, Panay Island, Woman lights candles at Ati-Atihan Festival in city of Kalibo

Huge crowds for holy Festival of Shivaratri in the streets of the holy city of Varanasi, Benares, Northern India

Transgender, kumbh mela, madhya pradesh, india, asia Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Young Girl Watching Her Mother Prepare Offerings For The Kuningan Festival; Bali, Indonesia

India, New Delhi, Qutub Minar Complex, Beautiful woman in colorful sari

India, State of Gujarat, Bhuj, Kutch, Ludiya village. Meghwal Marwari tribe. Traditional clothing and jewelry.

mercado del centro historico, y antiguas gradas del templo maya, Chichicastenango ,municipio del departamento de El Quiché, Guatemala, Central America.

Muslims who live in the villages of Merapi slope in the region of Yogyakarta and Klaten, Centre Java, did the Eid prayer in Klangon open space, located about 4-5 km from the crater of Mount Merapi. The people maintained health guidelines during the prayers as safety measures against the coronavirus which is still not under control in the country. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The members of the women's wings of "TIPRA Motha'', in a massive demonstration called, "Raj Bhavan Abhiyan", demanded the adoption of the Roman script for Kokborok language, at Agartala. Tripura, India.

UBUD, BALI -JULY 24 2019:Balinese family celebrating Galungan Kuningan holidays in a family temple in Ubud Bali, Indonesia.

Ekambareshvara Temple, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia, Family photo with people in colourful traditional clothes standing in front of a temple, South India, Asia

God ganesh festival procession Ray road Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Woman standing in a hindu temple in Babra village, Maharashtra, India

Wanted poster, varanasi, uttar pradesh, india, asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Procession of women wearing traditional dress riding on two wheelers for celebrating Gudi Padva festival, new year of Hindu religion, Thane, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xNitinxKelvalkar/DinodiaxPhotox

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - 05 December 2025: View of musicians gathered in a circle, their instruments reflecting the light against the black and white tiled floor, surrounded by a crowd in the shrine.

Muslim girls show their hands decorated with henna at a house on the outskirts of Agartala ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Tripura, India.

Muslim children s procession against child labour with Indian flag on republic day 26th January in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Myanmar. Near Mt Popa. Novitiation ceremony.

Kashmiri woman in burka, Dawar village, Gurez, Bandipora, Kashmir, India, Asia India Copyright: xRxMakharia/DinodiaxPhotox -

India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, Young Woman Praying.

Visitors from different parts of India come for training at Ralegan Siddhi near Pune ; Maharashtra ; India

Medha Patkar founder of Narmada Bachao Andolan and National Alliance of People Movements NO MR Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Indian Muslims person give money to needy people after perform the second Friday prayer in the holy month of Ramadan at a Mosque in Guwahati, India on March 31, 2023

India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi. Arti is a Hindu ritual, part of a puja, in which light from a flame is ritually waved for the veneration of deities. (Editorial Use Only)

Girl making a milk sacrifice, Hindu festival Thaipusam, Batu Caves limestone caves and temples, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Muslim devotees offer prayers at the Akheri Munajat or final prayers during the Biswa Ijtema 2nd phase, an annual congregation of Muslims in Tongi, the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Two monks look at the Irrawaddy, also Irawadi, now Ayeyarwaddy, Pagan, Bagan, Burma, Myanmar, Asia 1982

Devotee kisses the baby idol of Jesus Christ on the occasion of Christmas celebration, in Guwahati, Assam, India on 25 December 2021. Christmas, the birthday of Lord Jesus, is celebrated on December 25 every year.

Devdasi now commercial sex workers celebrating yellama festival at Kamatipura, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xSudharakxOlwe/xDinodiaxPhotox

Slum fire, damu nagar, kandivali, mumbai, maharashtra, india, asia Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Woman at the door of traditional mud walled Odisha village house decorated with traditional Odishan patterns, Dandasahi, Odisha, India, Asia

Durga Puja celebration in Paris, France, Europe

La Taña, Northern Transversal Strip, Quiché department, Guatemala

Pilgrims visited in Dakshineshwar Kali Temple Ramakrishna Paramhans was living here as priest Calcutta now Kolkata West Bengal India Copyright: xRavixShekhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Keshdan ceremony, baby has hair shaved off which is later sacrificed in the temple in front of the Hindu temple fo Jagannath, Puri, Orissa, India, Asia

ritual vidhi offering rice to God, varanasi, uttar pradesh, india Copyright: xRavixShekhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Oldest Mahadeva or Shiva temple at Vaikom Kerala India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Sri Lanka, North Central Province, Sigiriya, monks at the summit of Sigiriya rock fortress

Mata kheer bhawani temple in Srinagar, jammu Kashmir, india, asia Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

A kashmiri hindu at a camp in Jammu India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Praying woman at a temple festival in Peliatan, Bali, Indonesia, Asia

Devotees going down by stair, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Gangasagar Fair, West Bengal, India Copyright: xAshaxAdatia/DinodiaxPhotox

Mother and daughter in Swaminatha Swamy God Murugan Temple at Swamimalai near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

ritual of henna in Munshiganji, Bangladesh, Asia

Nyatapola Mandir on market day in Durbar Square, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

People walking in front of Swami Vivekananda Wall paining Kolkata West Bengal India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Tourists sitting the corridor around the tank at Banashankari Temple near Badami, Karnataka, South India, India, Asia

Woman wearing traditional cap in procession, mumbai, maharashtra, india, asia Copyright: xNitinxKelvalkar/DinodiaxPhotox

Young girl carrying coconut copper utensil Mahamasthakabhisheka important Jain festival Shravanabelagola Hassan Karnataka Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Worshipping Shiva Lingam at Muni Ki Reti, sometimes known as Lakshman Jhula, Rishikesh area, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India

Mother and daughter pilgrims in Swaminatha Swami temple, Swamimalai, Tamil Nadu, India NO MR Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Widows celebrating Holi festival Gopinath temple, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox -

Girls of Indian ethnicity at a Hindu Festival in Georgetown, Guyana, South Amerika, South America

Worshippers in the Hindu temple

Mother with children sit at the wooden wheel of the chariot of Seto Macchendraonath Kathmandu Nepal

South India

Ezhuthiniruthu Ceremony on Vijayadasami day in Saraswathi Temple at Panachikadu near Kottayam, Kerala, South India, India, Asia

Catholic Mass in Chong Khnies floating church on the Tonle Sap Lake, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

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