Chants of "Ganpati bappa morya" filled the streets of Mumbai on Thursday, where the 11-day festival of Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated with great gusto. Heavy rainfall did not dampen the visarjan (immersion) day festivities, where lakhs of people sung and danced their way to beaches and both artificial and natural ponds to bid adieu to their Ganesh idols.

Here's how the Hindu festival was celebrated across the country:

Thousands participate in the procession to Girgaum Chowpatty to immerse Mumbai's most popular Ganesh idol – Lalbaugcha Raja (Photo: PTI)
Devotees dance on a Mumbai street to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi (Photo: Reuters/Shailesh Andrade)
People take photographs of Mumbai's famous Lalbaugcha Raja idol (Photo: AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
A man prays as he carries a Ganesh idol for immersion in the Yamuna river in New Delhi (Photo: AFP/Sajjad Hussain)
Devotees carry Ganesh idols for immersion at Mumbai's Dadar Chowpatty beach (Photo: AFP/Punit Paranjpe)
Ganesh idols being immersed in the Yamuna river in Agra near the Taj Mahal (Photo: IANS)
Devotees gather around a 58-ft Ganesh idol in Hyderabad before it is immersed in the Hussain Sagar Lake (Photo: AFP/Noah Seelam)
A Ganesh idol being immersed in the sea in Chennai (Photo: PTI)
Devotees carry a Ganesh idol for immersion in Allahabad's Sangam, where three rivers meet. (Photo: AFP/Sanjay Kanojia)
A man takes a selfie with a Ganesh idol to be immersed in the Yamuna river in New Delhi (Photo: AFP/Sajjad Hussain)
People carry Ganesh idols for immersion in a river on the outskirts of Amritsar, Punjab (Photo: AFP/Narinder Nanu)