In pictures: New York mourns

American mourners for the victims of last Tuesday's terror attacks turned out to pray on Sunday. In New York, social and ethnic divides disappeared as thousands came together in St Patrick's Cathedral and other churches.

About 5,000 people came to St Patrick's to pray and weep

Patriotic feeling was strong among the congregation

Cardinal Edward Egan said the city had shown "its best" in the aftermath of the attacks

Mayor Giuliani, who has supervised the rescue effort since the start, was among the mourners

The city's rich racial mix was evident in the congregation

Two of this mourner's colleagues from a restaurant at the WTC are missing

For some of New York's mourners, the grief was too much