The Badr and al-Hashoosh mosques were hit when they were filled with worshippers.

The Wesleyan chapel in Bridgetown is a spacious building, well filled with worshippers every Sabbath.

Churches, which would usually be filled with worshippers in the religiously mixed city, were largely empty.

Churches in the Polish capital Warsaw and the southern city of Krakow where Wojtyla was archbishop filled with worshippers.

Photo: AFP The huge red crane crashed into a part of the Grand Mosque - which was filled with worshippers at the time.

At least four gunmen, wearing suicide vests, rushed into the mosque on Parade Lane when it was filled with worshippers attending Friday prayers.

At exactly 8.45am on Sunday, bomb blasts rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka that were filled with worshippers and visitors.