The phrase "a crowd of devotees" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large group of people who are enthusiastic supporters or followers of a particular cause, belief, or figure.
Example: "During the festival, a crowd of devotees gathered to celebrate and pay homage to their spiritual leader."
Alternatives: "a throng of followers" or "a gathering of admirers."
The more I looked, the more I found that yoga, at least in America, was a lot like the fashionista universe -- committed to a pecking order among gurus, an "in" crowd of devotees, and a finely calibrated list of dos and don'ts.
Last spring, Jason DeFillippo, a founder of Metroblogging Global Blog Network — a company that oversees more than 700 city-specific blogs — heard Mr. Ferriss extol his "low information diet" to a crowd of high-tech devotees at a tech conference this spring.
I support it and will continue to support it no matter what the liberals say," the Tea Party-backed Republican told a crowd of Second Amendment devotees, according to a report from The Daily Caller.
"I'm going to be dropping the interim title,' Jobs told a crowd of 3,000 screaming Apple devotees at Macworld Expo, who responded to the news with chants of "Steve, Steve, Steve" and a 30-second standing ovation.
Haunting music from the Potter film franchise wafted over a crowd of more than 250 devotees who had been in line since before 2 a.m.
He had just read ten minutes of "Moby-Dick" to a crowd of more than a hundred devotees.
The Woodstock Festival occasioned the harmonious gathering of a crowd of about 400,000 young rock-music devotees and marked what is considered the high point of the American youth counterculture of the 1960s.
A crowd of hundreds waited.
It is pure pleasure, whipped up fresh and served up straight, without pretense, whether on the tiny stage of La Bodega or in New York during one of the several appearances she makes each year before a growing crowd of stateside devotees.
Varanasi, in northern India along the banks of the Ganges River, is one of the holiest places in Hinduism, drawing huge crowds of devotees and tourists year-round.
