Urs Festival Images: The Urs festival is an annual festival held at Ajmer, a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, which commemorates the death anniversary of the Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti, (founder of the Chishtiya Sufi order in India). It is held over six days and features night-long dhikr/zikr qawwali singing. The anniversary is celebrated in the seventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Thousands of pilgrims visit the shrine from all over India and abroad.
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Women devotees offering prayers at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizamuddin Auliya
Visitors to the shrine buy religious items and trinkets at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizamuddin Auliya
Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary, but they also offer their reverence at saint Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah in Nizamuddin West, New Delhi
Sufi Qawali singers sing Qawalis in the compound of the shrine
The six-day Urs of Dargah Ajmer Sharif festival is considered as one of the most sacred celebrations in Sufism. A Sufi saint of the Chishti order, Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizamuddin Auliya is remembered on Urs and is celebrated with enthusiasm by thousands of pilgrims who throng his shrine in New Delhi during this festival
A boy holding flowers and Chaddars (Ceremonial religious drapes) at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizamuddin Auliya during the festival
A devotee checks his scull cap before buying it from the market at shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizamuddin Auliya
A lady ties sacred thread at a lattice door at the shrine to observe ‘mannat’ or a prayer of belief
A vendor sells kebabs to visitors and pilgrims visiting the Nizamuddin dargah
A woman devotee in a state of fervour offers prayers at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizamuddin Auliya
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