Worshippers have returned to Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch for the first time since dozens of people were killed in a deadly terror attack.
Hundreds of people visited the mosque to lay flowers and tributes, or pray, after police removed a cordon.
It is the first time people have been allowed back into the mosque to visit since 50 people were gunned down while at Friday prayers.
Crews had replaced windows that worshippers smashed in a desperate attempt to escape when the attack during Friday prayers. Bullet holes were plastered over and painted.
Shagat Khan, the president of the Muslim Association of Canterbury, said they had not planned to open the mosque so soon but when they saw the crowds gathering after the police cordon was removed, they decided to allow people to enter in managed groups "so the mosque will be alive again".
"Those who lost their families are of course quite emotional," he said. "And those who were present here during the incident, of course the memories come back. The flashbacks."
A total of 50 people were killed at two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, in the country's worst terrorist attack.
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder and is scheduled to make his next court appearance on April 5.
Abdullahi Ibrahim Diriye, the uncle of the youngest victim of the shooting, three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, visited the mosque with the boy's father.
Mr Diriye said: "Always he was a happy boy, and he liked every person he met, not only Muslims.”
Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, who travelled to New Zealand to pay his respects, hugged a man at the entrance of the mosque and told him to "be patient".
He said: “He was crying deeply from his heart for a loved one he had lost.
"And I was saying, this is God's will, be patient. Because only through patience can you endure."
