Gadhimai Mela

Gadhimai mela 2024 is going to be held on December 2, 2024. Despite animal right, the sacrificing of animals for welfare of family was continued in 2019. This year the temple has banned to sacrifice pegion. Eventhough the religious people are preparing to sacrifice buffalo. It is a challenge to change the rooted tradition of sacrificing animal

A Gadhimai Temple authority member registers animals before its sacrifice during the five-yearly Gadhimai Mela, in Bara district, Nepal. PTI. Since then, the festival has seen mass animal sacrifice every five years. Today, participants believe that the animal sacrifice, which includes goat, rat, chicken, pig and a pigeon and buffalo, ends

The Gadhimai Maha Mela at Gadhimai Temple in Bara is one of Nepal's biggest religious festivals. Held every five years, this event draws millions of people from Nepal and beyond. This festival, celebrated with great religious enthusiasm, is one of the greatest religious gatherings in the country.

The Gadhimai festival, a quinquennial religious observance dating back more than centuries, sees the killing of thousands of animalsfrom rats and pigeons to goats and water buffalosin belief

Less than five years ago, animal charities heralded the end of animal sacrifice at a religious festival dubbed quotthe world's bloodiestquot. But on Tuesday, the Gadhimai festival began with the killing

The Gadhimai Mela 2024 will be held at the Gadhimai Temple in Bariyarpur, Bara District, Nepal, from December 2 to 11. Known for its animal sacrifices, it is one of the largest and most controversial slaughter events. The Gadhimai Festival is a significant Hindu event held every five years at the Gadhimai Temple in Bariyarpur,

The temple is particularly well-known for holding the Gadhimai Mela, a lavish celebration that draws millions of devotees every five years. With roots in centuries-old customs, this occasion is held to honour the goddess and ask for her blessings for wealth, authority, and desire fulfilment. Due to its size and distinctive customs, the festival

Gadhimai festival is a Hindu festival held every five years in Nepal at the Gadhimai Temple of Bariyarpur, in Bara District, about 160 kilometres 99 mi south of the capital Kathmandu, and about 7 kilometres 4.3 mi east of the city of Kalaiya, near the Indo-Nepal border.The event involves large-scale sacrificial slaughter of animals, including water buffalo, 2 pigs, goats, chickens, and

Devotees raise their sacrificial blades as the sacrificial ceremony of the quotGadhimai Melaquot festival begins at Bariyarpur in Nepal on December 3, 2019. Navesh ChitrakarReuters

The scale of the animal killings at Gadhimai is staggering, with the event described as the world's bloodiest festival. Up to 500,000 are estimated to have been sacrificed during the 2009