The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is an eleven-day religious festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu god of success, which ended on Sept 5, 2017.
Devotees dance as they carry the idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during a procession on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Mumbai, India on Sept 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
Devotees immerse an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the Sabarmati river on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Ahmedabad, India on Sept 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
Devotees dance as they carry the idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during a procession on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Mumbai, India on Sept 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
Devotees carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god, Lord Ganesha, for immersion in a pool near Sangam in Allahabad on Sept 5, 2017.PHOTO: AFP
Devotees carry the idol of Hindu god Ganesh during a procession on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, before immersing the idol into the Arabian sea, in Mumbai, India on Sept 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh before immersing it into the Mediterranean sea during Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Ceuta, Spain, on Aug 27, 2017.PHOTO: REUTERS
Devotees watch as crane workers immerse a 57-foot high statue of Hindu god Ganesh in the Hussain Sagar Lake during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, on Sept 5, 2017.PHOTO: AFP
An Indian Hindu devotee carries an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha for immersion at Dadar Chowpatty beach on the seventh day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai on Aug 31, 2017.PHOTO: AFP
An Indian girl with an idol of Lord Ganesha, immersed by devotees into the Tawi River, as she searches for coins in the water in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India, on Sept 5, 2017. PHOTO: EPA
Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh onto a cart for its immersion during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Ahmedabad, India, on Sept 3, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
Indian devotees immerse an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh in the Indian ocean at Pattinapakkam beach in Chennai on Aug 27, 2017.PHOTO: AFP
Devotees watch the immersion of a 57-foot high statue of Hindu god Ganesh in the Hussain Sagar Lake during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, on Sept 5, 2017.PHOTO: AFP
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