Top attractions and must-see spots in Prayagraj
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The immortal sacred banyan tree inside Allahabad Fort, believed to have survived every cosmic dissolution and mentioned in the Puranas.
A massive Mughal fort built by Akbar in 1583 at the Ganga-Yamuna confluence, housing the Ashoka Pillar and ancient subterranean temples.
One of India's finest regional museums in Prayagraj, housing sculptures, Roerich paintings, and Nehru family memorabilia spanning 2,500 years of history.
The ancestral Nehru family home in Prayagraj, now a museum preserving artefacts and memories from India's freedom movement.
A science planetarium within Prayagraj's Anand Bhavan complex offering astronomy dome shows and science exhibitions in the Nehru family legacy grounds.
The vast floodplain at Prayagraj's Triveni Sangam where the world's largest human gathering — the Kumbh Mela — takes place, drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims.
The original Nehru family home in Prayagraj donated to the Congress in 1930, now a museum preserving the history of India's independence movement.
A vast 133-acre historic park in Prayagraj where freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad died in 1931, also home to the Allahabad Museum.
The most sacred Hindu confluence where the Ganga, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers meet in Prayagraj — believed to grant liberation, epicentre of the Kumbh Mela.
The Yamuna Bridge area in Prayagraj offering the best views of the Ganga-Yamuna confluence, especially spectacular during Kumbh Mela and at sunset.
A unique Shakti Peetha in Prayagraj where a sacred palanquin is worshipped instead of an idol, marking where Sati's doli fell.
A rare temple inside Allahabad Fort housing a reclining idol of Hanuman, believed to gradually sink deeper into the earth.
An ancient riverside Shiva temple in Prayagraj known as the fulfiller of heart's desires, significant during Mahashivaratri.
