Mount Mary Road
19th September, 2015
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| Groups of people walking towards the Mount Mary church |
The most sought after festival of Christians after Christmas
in Mumbai is unarguably the Mount Mary festival, held at the Mount Mary Church,
Bandra. The festival is a week-long affair accompanied by a fair held on the
Mount Mary road near the church complex.
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| The wax miniatures and two young lads |
The fair largely has stalls selling wax dummies of various
things like a house, a baby or that of a limb, boat etc. The whole idea is, for
all that you wish for, buy a dummy of the same and offer it to Mother Mary. It’s
a faith with which people come to the festival that Mother Mary will fulfill their
wishes.
What surprised me the most is that it seemed less of a Christian
festival than a celebration of faith. And this was evident from the crowd which
visited the festival. It had more number of Gujaratis, Maharashtrians,
Punjabis, etc. than Christians.
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| The idols of Lord Jesus |
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| The beautiful interiors of the Mount Mary church |
While a whole lot of people walked on the demarcated
pathway, for me it was a blissful cloudy afternoon, walking up the Mount Mary
road, feeling the south west monsoon winds and the intermittent glimpse of the
sea and rushing waves from the narrow aisle formed by the towers along the
road. And the religious ambience around added to the whole experience.
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| The serene environs and the wild waves forming the backdrop |
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