Munger
A Shakti Peeth on the Ganga, with the fort and the bathing ghats beside it.
East Bihar, Anga
Places around Munger
- Chandika Sthan: For darshan at a Shakti Peetha, and specifically for vows about eye ailments
- Kastaharni Ghat: The name means "the bathing place which expels all pains"; pilgrims bathe here believing it relieves...
- Pir Shah Nafah Shrine: The Pir is regarded as the protector of the town and the shrine as a place of wish fulfilment; both...
- Gurdwara Pakki Sangat, Munger: Guru Tegh Bahadur stayed here on his journey east to Assam, and it was at Munger that he received news...
- Munger Fort: It is the enclosure for Munger's principal Muslim shrine and the anchor of the town's pilgrim circuit
More to see and do
Manjusha art of Bhagalpur
The only Indian folk painting told as a strip, in three colours, of the Bihula-Bishahari legend; GI-registered in 2021.
Pink, green and yellow line paintings on temple-shaped boxes of bamboo, jute and paper, made for the Bishahari puja of the Anga country.
Bhagalpur silk
The tussar silk of the Silk City, GI-registered in 2013.
Tussar and other silks woven in the weaving quarters of Bhagalpur.
Jardalu mango
Bhagalpur's pale, fragrant mango, sent every year to the President; GI-registered in 2018.
A light-yellow, elongated mango known by its smell, grown in the orchards of Bhagalpur and Sultanganj block.
Katarni rice and chura
The fragrant rice of the Munger-Bhagalpur plain, GI-registered in 2018, best known here as beaten rice.
An aromatic short-grain rice from Munger, Banka and south Bhagalpur, eaten as rice or flattened into chura.
Dahi chura on Makar Sankranti
The Makar Sankranti breakfast across Bihar: flattened rice, curd and jaggery, with tilkut after.
Chura, dahi and gur eaten together on the morning of Sankranti, with tilkut.
Thekua, the Chhath prasad
The moulded wheat-and-jaggery biscuit every Bihari home fries for Chhath.
Whole wheat, ghee and jaggery pressed in a wooden saancha and fried; offered to the sun at Chhath and shared after.
Yatras through Munger
- Sikh Yatra: Guru Gobind Singh was born in Patna and spent his first years here
- Sufi Yatra: Khanqahs and dargahs that have taken visitors of every faith for six hundred years
- Shakti Yatra: Devi shrines on hills and in villages, including the oldest working temple in India
- Sun Temple Yatra: The shrines behind Chhath, Bihar's own festival
Experiences
- Yoga at Munger: The school that sent Indian yoga to the world, on the bank of the Ganga
- Chhath on the ghats: Bihar's own festival, and the largest thing that happens here
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