Mosques across Britain have opened their doors to the public, in a bid to bring communities together and alleviate tensions about terrorism in the wake of the Paris attacks.
More than 20 venues are serving tea and cakes to visitors who want to understand more about Islam.
Sunday's Visit My Mosque event was organised by the Muslim Council of Britain "to demonstrate unity and solidarity during what has been a tense time for faith communities".
The Finsbury Park mosque in north London, where radical cleric Abu Hamza was once imam, is among those taking part.
Hamza was jailed in New York for terrorism offences last month, and in recent years, the place of worship has undergone a change of leadership, with a renewed emphasis on inter-faith dialogue.
But after the attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket in Paris by gunmen who claimed they were acting to revenge insults against the Prophet Mohammed, the mosque said it had received threats.
General Secretary Mohammed Kozar told Sky News: "Most of them are nasty drawings about our prophet and our books.
"Some of them make death threats against our community, so it's quite frightening for our community and our mosque."
The shootings by three gunmen, who claimed they were operating on behalf of Islamic State and Al Qaeda in Yemen, prompted Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to write to the Britain's mosques urging them to do more to root out extremists and prevent young people being radicalised.
Sunday's outreach programme at the mosques followed the killing of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by Islamic State jihadists.
Former army chief Lord Dannatt told Sky News' Dermot Murnaghan that the best way to combat extremist ideology was for communities to work together.
"It's really important that our communities - particularly where there are large Muslim populations - organise themselves and conduct matters in such a way that particularly young Muslims have a stake in the future of this country, and this country has a future in them," he said.
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