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Coordinates: 25°17′19.132″N 83°0′24.342″E

Assi Ghat
Assi Ghat is the southernmost ghat in Varanasi.[1] To most visitors to Assi Ghat
Varanasi, it is known for being a place where long-term foreign students,
researchers, and tourists live.[2]

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Tourism at Assi Ghat Morning aarti at Assi Ghat
In popular culture Religion
References
Affiliation Hinduism
External links
Location
State Uttar Pradesh
Tourism at Assi Ghat Country India

Assi Ghat is the southernmost ghat in Varanasi. To most visitors to Varanasi, it Geographic 25°17′19.132″N
is known for being a place where long-term foreign students, researchers, and coordinates 83°0′24.342″E
tourists live. Assi Ghat is one of the ghats often visited for recreation and
during festivals. On typical days about 300 people visit every hour in the
mornings, and on festival days 2500 people arrive per hour. Most of the people
visiting the ghat on usual days are students from the nearby Banaras Hindu
University. The ghat accommodates about 22,500 people at once during
festivals like Shivratri.[3]

There are a lot of activities for tourists to engage in at the ghat. Visitors can go
for boat rides, go up in a hot-air balloon for an aerial view of Assi ghat, enjoy Assi Ghat
the daily talent show in the evening or eat at one of the many restaurants and
cafes in the area.

Hindus believe that it was at Assi Ghat that Tulsidas left for his heavenly
abode.

After the 2010 Varanasi bombing the city commissioned extra police to the
Assi Ghat neighborhood in order to more quickly resolve problems which
tourists might have.[4]

In popular culture Old people in group chat in the

evening at Assi Ghat
Kashinath Singh's Hindi novel Kashi Ka Assi is set in the mohalla near the
ghat. The novel is being adapted as Mohalla Assi, a 2018 Bollywood film
starring Sunny Deol and directed by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, which is set in the mohalla (locality) around Assi
Ghat.[2][5]

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Raanjhanaa, a 2013 film which is also a Varanasi-based story, also has scenes of the "Assi Ghat".

References
1. Piers Moore Ede (26 February 2015). Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi (https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpl
EBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT6). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-1-4088-3542-5.
2. "In the new world" (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/In-the-new-world/748064/). Indian Express. 11 February
2011.
3. John McKim Malville and Rana P. B. Singh. "Time and the Ganga River at Asi Ghat, Pilgrimage and Ritual
Landscape" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110124131559/http://www.sasnet.lu.se/EASASpapers/46JohnMalville.pdf)
(PDF). Archived from the original (http://www.sasnet.lu.se/EASASpapers/46JohnMalville.pdf) (PDF) on 24 January
2011. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
4. "New measures to perk up vigil in city" (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-11/varanasi/28271739_1_
ghats-spos-temples). The Times of India. The Times Group. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
5. "Sunny Deol to play a pandit in Mohalla Assi" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110212163510/http://movies.ndtv.com/m
ovie_story.aspx?section=Movies&Id=ENTEN20110169087&keyword=bollywood&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA&nid=8431
8). NDTV Movies. Archived from the original (http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?section=Movies&Id=ENTEN2
0110169087&keyword=bollywood&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA&nid=84318) on 12 February 2011. Retrieved 11 February
2011.

External links
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