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Jagannath Temple & Rath Yatra

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                        Jagannath Temple & Rath Yatra   The Jagannath Temple is an inportant Hindu Temple. The Temple is located in the city of Puri in Odisha. This Temple is a famous Hindu pilgrimage site. Thousands of people come here every day to visit Jagannath Dev . There is another form of Jagannath Dev Krishna in folklore. It is quite crowded here and about 2.5 - 3 million people from different states of India come here at this time just to see the chariot festival. Originally from Odisha, this Puri temple is famous for it.                                 In India, most of the Rath Yatra are in Odisha Puri city and in East Midnapore Mahishadal, Srirampur town, Mahesh's Rath Yatra,  Kolkata and Iskcon's Rath in Bangladesh and fairs are organized in different places on the occasion of Rath Yatra.                                There are some special things that are conventional here. A few days before the chariot ride, on the third day of Akshay, a piece of wood

Kolaghat Railway Station.

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                         Kolaghat  Kolaghat is a famous Town. Kolaghat is located in East Midnapore district. Kolaghat is not a very ancient town. It has developed slowly over two hundred years. It was formerly known as ' Kola ' gram. Later it came to be known as kolaghat.                                    In 1903 Bengal - Nagpur Railway service was started. Since then, The ' Ghats ' of ' Kola ' village have come to be known as Kolaghat. From then on, the name of the station became known as Kolaghat.  Kolaghat Railway Station.