Indian children play among parts of a pontoon bridge to be built across the Ganges on June 19, 2012. #

A worker adds finishing touches to the interior of a pontoon on December 23, 2005. #

Laborers push a pontoon to construct a temporary bridge on the Ganges in Allahabad on November 29, 2010. #

Indian laborers pull a pontoon buoy with a rope in the Ganges as they build a floating bridge over the river on October 24, 2018. #

Laborers construct a temporary pontoon bridge over the Ganges at Sangam in Allahabad on November 4, 2012. #

Workers carry wooden sleepers for decking on a pontoon bridge on December 7, 2015. #

Laborers work on a newly constructed temporary pontoon bridge in Allahabad on November 2, 2018. #

Workers complete a temporary pontoon bridge in Allahabad on November 27, 2012. #

Thousands of Indian Hindu devotees walk across bridges at Sangam in Allahabad on February 25, 2013. #

An elephant makes its way across a bridge in Allahabad on February 14, 2013. #

Thousands of Hindu devotees cross over the Ganges in Allahabad. #

Hindu devotees bathe at Sangam after sundown on February 9, 2013. #

Hindu devotees cross newly constructed bridges in Allahabad on January 22, 2012. #

Hindu holy men sit on the roofs of cars while crossing a bridge over the Ganges on January 14, 2001. #

Hindu devotees cross the Ganges after bathing in the waters at Sangam on February 10, 2013. #

Tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims walk across pontoon bridges on January 23, 2001, in Allahabad. #