Pancha Ganga Ghat

Pancha Ganga Ghat is recognized by the Alamgir Mosque that looms above its stone steps, a structure built by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the seventeenth century. The mosque stands on the site of the former Bindu Madhav Temple, a once-glorious shrine to Lord Vishnu that served as the primary landmark of the area during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The name of the ghat itself reflects a belief in a sacred confluence, where the Ganges is said to be joined by four other rivers—the Yamuna, Saraswati, Dhutpapa, and Kirana—though only the Ganges remains visible to the eye today.