Pilgrimage places in India
Religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred place or shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Members of every major religion participate in pilgrimages. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. Hinduism. Most Hindus who can afford to go on such journeys travel to numerous iconic sites including those below: These Hindu pilgrimage sites can be divided into , , , devi sites etc. Every category has got its own significance. It is believed that visiting  help one to attain salvation. There are four and twelve along with 51 in India. Islam. In addition to being places of , and have often served as places for Islamic education and the training of new ulema, as centres of Sufi turuq. For example, many Sunni ulema educated in the Chishti Order were educated in Delhi, where the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya is and where his students are well established. Movements within the ulema, such as the Deobandi or Barelvi movements, are so named because they are associated with particularly influential seminaries and madrassahs (like the Darul Uloom Deoband in  Deoband, or the Urs-e-Razavi in Bareilly, the latter of which is so named because it is located at the of Imam Ahmad Raza Khan). During the Mughal era, Surat was a common port for Muslims across North and West India to depart for the Hajj. Some other pilgrimage places in India and Nepal connected to the life of Gautama Buddha are: Pataliputta, Nalanda, Vikramshila, Gaya, Kapilavastu, Kosambi, Sanchi, Varanasi, Kesariya, Devadaha, Pava and Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Dhauli Stupa, near Puri, Odisha, etc. Buddhism. There are many places scattered across mainland India, where one can find the relics of  ancient Mauryan and the Gupta Empire, who championed and help propagate the Buddhist faith across most of India, South East and far East Asian countries. Zoroastrianism. The Zoroastrians take pilgrimage trips in India to the eight Atash Behrams in India and one in Yazd.