Hundreds of Londoners from different faiths gathered outside a mosque in Finsbury Park in show of solidarity following a van attack on a crowd of Muslims who had been to pray.
The vehicle swerved into the group of worshippers, mainly of North and West African origin, after they left prayers in the early hours of Monday at the Muslim Welfare House and the nearby Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, one of the biggest in Britain, injuring 11.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said the people at the scene "worked with officers to calmly and quickly get him into our custody".
One man was pronounced dead at the scene and eight others were injured.
One person was killed and 10 others injured on Monday when a van collided with pedestrians near a North London mosque in an incident which is being investigated by counter terrorism officers, police said.
"During the night, ordinary British citizens were set upon while they were going about their lives, completing their night worship", he said.
In a statement, the police say they were called to the Seven Sisters Road by reports of collision with pedestrians.
The Finsbury Park mosque was associated with extremist ideology for several years after the 9/11 attacks in the United States, but it was shut down and reorganized.
London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, called the act "deliberate" and urged Londoners to "remain calm and vigilant".
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The man was being held down, beaten and kicked when Muslim cleric Mohammed Mahmoud stepped in to plead with people just to restrain him until police arrived.
Finsbury Park Mosque said it was a "callous terrorist attack" and noted it had occurred nearly exactly a year after a man obsessed with Nazis and extreme right-wing ideology murdered lawmaker Jo Cox, a former humanitarian aid worker.
Prime Minister Theresa May said the attack was "every bit as sickening" as the others.
"Hatred and evil of this kind will never succeed", she said in a televised statement.
This is the third attack in London since March and the second in which a vehicle was used as a lethal weapon.
"I also want to thank you for the work you do to foster good relations in the Finsbury Park community", the cardinal added. London police chief Cressida Dick described it as "quite clearly an attack on Muslims".
Mrs May was outside Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee.
"I saw him on the news and I thought "Oh my God" that is my neighbour".
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