8 Best Things To Do In The Pilgrimage City Of Shirdi, India
The pilgrimage city of Shirdi is located in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India and it is Maharashtra’s most important and third most important pilgrimage town in India, after Tirupati and Maa Vaishnaodevi, in Jammu and Kashmir. Sai Baba, a 19th-century saint who united people of all faiths, is the presiding deity of the shrine, here. The small town, with a population of around 40,000 welcomes 60,000 visitors every day. This number swells to 100,000 during weekends and is as high as 500,000 during auspicious days, such as Gurupoornima, Holi, New Year, Dussehra and Ramnavami. The site, in spite of its huge, daily rush of people, is well-managed and clean and you can receive darshan or the blessing from the saint in about one or two hours. The shrine is the primary source of livelihood for Shirdi’s people and the temple supports various developmental activities, in the town. The temple was constructed in 1922 by a Sai devotee, Shrimant Gopalrao, a millionaire from Nagpur,
