Lord Ram returns home after 500 years of ‘exile’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes part in the Ram temple ‘bhoomi pujan’, in Ayodhya on Wednesday.

Devotees light the earthen lamps at a Ram temple in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Devotees offer prayers and lighting lamps at a Ram temple in Kochi on Wednesday.
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People celebrating the foundation-laying ceremony of Ram temple at Ayodhya, in Jaipur on Wednesday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes part in the Ram temple ‘bhoomi pujan’, in Ayodhya on Wednesday.

Artists dressed as Lord Ram and Hanuman, in Bengaluru.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanth presents an idol of Lord Ram to Prime Minister Narendra
Modi at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on Wednesday.

Mouni Baba performs rituals at the ghat of Saryu river on the occasion of the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday.

A devotee wearing Hanuman get-up while celebrating the ‘bhoomi pujan’ ceremony of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

Muslim women offer prayers to Lord Ram on the occasion of foundation stone-laying ceremony of Ayodhya’s Ram Temple, in Varanasi on Wednesday.

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