PBS - Sacred Journeys (2014) Part 5 Kumbh Mela

In this landmark series, New York Times best-selling author Bruce Feiler travels with American pilgrims on six historic pilgrimages. They set out from the ordinary and seek the extraordinary on journeys to spectacular places: Lourdes, France; southern Japan; Jerusalem; Mecca; the Ganges in India; and Nigeria. Unprecedented in scope, Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler will forever change how you view your own spiritual journey.

Part 5: Kumbh Mela

Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity for religious purposes on the planet. Pilgrims come from across India and around the world to bathe in the water where the two sacred rivers meet. Such mass bathing in the Ganges has been recorded for more than 2,500 years.

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