Festivities at urs of Muinuddin Chishti

Published May 24, 2012
Indian Sufi Muslim devotee prayers at the Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan.
Indian Sufi Muslim devotee prayers at the Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan.

Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary.

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