Hundreds of women from all around the UK came together at Europe’s largest faith conference.

Delegates from Golders Green, Finchley and Barnet attended the event at the London School of Economics, on Sunday April 22.

It was hosted by Nisa-Nashim, which runs Jewish and Muslim conferences.

Laura Marks, Jewish co-founder of Nisa-Nashim, said: “Over the last year, the world has continued to be a difficult and dangerous place.

“Seventy one people died in the horrific Grenfell Tower tragedy, 22 young people were murdered at a concert in Manchester.

“Anti-Semitic hate incidents have reached a record level in the UK.

“Anti-Muslim hate crime has increased, both here and abroad.

“What we are focussing on at this conference is the need to stick together and genuinely support each other; no ifs, no buts, just friendship and support.

More than 200 Jewish and Muslim women travelled to the conference to represent locations including Manchester, Leeds, Exeter, Peterborough, Surrey, Bournemouth, Luton and Birmingham.

The day also featured many opportunities for creating bonds between the two faiths such as prayers with Jewish and Muslim services held side by side.

Julie Siddiqi, Muslim co-founder of Nisa-Nashim, said: “We must not allow people around us to pitch Jews and Muslims against each other to fight over who is the most hated.

“The Nisa-Nashim approach is one of collaboration, of meeting and getting to know each other as friends, to understand that in many ways we have a lot in common.

“We need to be brave, we need to make changes, we need to be the change we want to see in the world and we need to take others with us.”