LONDON: Muslims, Christians, and Jews from all walks of British life joined a rally to boost religious harmony, in central London on Thursday.

More than 100 people, including religious leaders, children and pensioners, walked in the rain from London’s main mosque at Regent’s Park to the Central Synagogue and then through the bustling crowds of Soho to Westminster Abbey. At each venue they gathered for a moment of reflection, led variously by the local imam, rabbi and priest, to emphasize their shared values and hopes for peace.

“The terrorists hope to divide us but these atrocities are uniting us,” Sheikh Khalifa Ezzat, chief imam at London Central Mosque, told AFP.

The march was called in response to last month’s militant attacks in Paris, by a group of religious leaders brought together under the inter-faith Coexist program. Since then Europe has been rocked by the shootings in Copenhagen.

“There are so many extreme views flying around which make people think religion is responsible for all conflict. But this perception is totally wrong,” a marcher said.