Lingams at the head quarters of the Juna Akhara, a monastic order of Sadhus, in Kankhal.

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Lingams at the head quarters of the Juna Akhara, a monastic order of Sadhus, in Kankhal, a suburb of Haridwar. Haridwar is one of India's most sacred Hindu cities. It is in Haridwar that the Ganges breaks out of the foothills of the Himalayas and into the Ganetic plain. Millions of pilgrims visit the city every year to take a holy bath on Har Ki Pairi Ghat, which is said to have a footprint of Vishnu.

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Location: Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India
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