Glimpses of Lord Shiva being worshipped on Mahashivratri.
The chief minister will also pray at the nearby Hanuman Garhi temple on Wednesday.
Adityanath has earned a new sobriquet "bulldozer baba" due to raging of properties of criminals and mafias built through illegal means.
People were seen wading through knee-deep water in several areas. Commuters, too, had a hard time as vehicular traffic crawled on the roads clogged with long tailbacks.