Munger Fort

Ancient site · Munger, Bihar

It is the enclosure for Munger's principal Muslim shrine and the anchor of the town's pilgrim circuit

The riverside fort at Munger, which encloses the Pir Shah Nafah shrine and its 1497 mosque and old tombs, and sits beside Kastaharni Ghat.

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Yoga at Munger: The school that sent Indian yoga to the world, on the bank of the Ganga

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.
Bhagalpur silk: The tussar silk of the Silk City, GI-registered in 2013.
Jardalu mango: Bhagalpur's pale, fragrant mango, sent every year to the President; GI-registered in 2018.
Katarni rice and chura: The fragrant rice of the Munger-Bhagalpur plain, GI-registered in 2018, best known here as beaten rice.
Dahi chura on Makar Sankranti: The Makar Sankranti breakfast across Bihar: flattened rice, curd and jaggery, with tilkut after.
Thekua, the Chhath prasad: The moulded wheat-and-jaggery biscuit every Bihari home fries for Chhath.

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...

The riverside fort at Munger, which encloses the Pir Shah Nafah shrine and its 1497 mosque and old tombs, and sits beside Kastaharni Ghat.

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