Lalbaugcha Raja visarjan will take place on Friday, 25 September 2026, on Anant Chaturdashi, with the idol’s traditional procession scheduled after the final darshan and morning rituals. The Lalbaugcha Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal has announced the closing times for the Charan Sparsh and Mukh Darshan queues, while the exact immersion time has not yet been finalised.
According to the mandal, the Charan Sparsh queue closed at 6 am on Thursday. The Mukh Darshan queue closed at 6 pm the same day. Online darshan is expected to remain available on Anant Chaturdashi until the immersion procession begins.
The final aarti for Lalbaugcha Raja is expected to take place at around 9 am on Friday. Initial information cited by Navbharat Times indicates that the idol may leave the pandal after the aarti, with the procession expected to begin at approximately 11 am. The report does not provide a confirmed time for the immersion itself.
The immersion date follows the traditional 11-day Ganeshotsav cycle observed for the large public idols in Mumbai. While many households and smaller public mandals immerse their idols after one, three, five or seven days, prominent idols such as Lalbaugcha Raja generally conclude their festival on Anant Chaturdashi.
The announcement also comes as Mumbai prepares for the movement of large crowds and processions across the city on the festival’s concluding day. The Lalbaug area, the procession route and the Girgaum Chowpatty waterfront will be central to the day’s arrangements, although the supplied report does not provide details of traffic diversions or public transport changes.
A separate major procession will involve Ganesh Galli’s Mumbai-cha Raja, which is celebrating its 99th year. The mandal is preparing to immerse its 22-foot idol at sea near Girgaum Chowpatty using a specialised barge. The report describes the barge-based deep-sea immersion as a first for the Ganesh Galli festival’s history.
For Mumbai-cha Raja, the final maha-aarti is scheduled for 7 am on Friday. The procession will then travel from Lalbaug towards Girgaum Chowpatty, accompanied by traditional musical instruments, gulal and flowers. The barge-based immersion is scheduled between 8 pm and 11 pm on 25 September, subject to joint approvals and safety rules involving the Maharashtra Maritime Board, Mumbai Police and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
The two schedules underline the scale of Anant Chaturdashi in Mumbai, when major public idols converge on the city’s established immersion points. For devotees planning to attend, the confirmed timings are the closure of the Lalbaugcha Raja darshan queues, the morning aarti schedules and the announced evening window for Mumbai-cha Raja’s barge immersion. Further details on the exact Lalbaugcha Raja procession and immersion timing remain awaited from the mandal.
