Largest Annual Gathering Of Women
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In February or March each year, over 1 million women gather at the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, for the ‘Pongala’ offering.The women, who come from all religions and communities in Kerala, gather with their cooking pots to perform a ritual for the health and prosperity of their families. The highest ever attendance was 1.5 million women at the festival on February 23, 1997. The ceremony, which involves cooking rice as an offering to the deity, lasts six hours.
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