Detroit — Hundreds of people from all faiths joined their religious leaders at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit for an interfaith prayer for peace on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Archbishop Allen Vigneron and the other faith leaders, including imams and several local Protestant pastors, took turns offering prayers during the service. Fr. Jeffrey Day, interfaith and ecumenical advisor for the Archdiocese of Detroit, gave a closing blessing.

Host Bishop Edgar L. Vann II emceed the interfaith service and gave closing remarks in which he called the event "historic."

"We've come together today to say to the world that hate will not divide us," Bishop Vann said. "Fear will not divide us. We will stand together. We will live together. We will build bridges together, to fulfill the destiny God has intended over all our lives."

Other faith leaders who attended and helped lead the service were Bishop Charles H. Ellis III of Pentecostal Assemblies of the World; Rev. Edwin Rowe of Central United Methodist Church; Imam Sayid Hassan Al-Qazwini of Islamic Center of America in Dearborn; Dr. Oscar King III, president of the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity; Dr. Allyson Nelson Abrams, pastor of Zion Progress Baptist Church; Rev. Daniel Krichbaum of the Detroit Conference of the United Methodist Church; Imam Dawud Walid of Nasjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit; Rev. Adolph "Skip" Waschmann, pastor of Genesis Lutheran Church; Bishop Clarence Bernard Haddon, pastor of High Praise Cathedral in Inkster; and Bishop Corletta Vaughn of Holy Ghost Cathedral.