An event mourning the death Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei was held at a mosque in Watford earlier this week.
A notice advertising the meeting was shared online with a large image of the former supreme leader, who was killed in an attack by Israel and the United States last week.
It was held at Al-Zahra Centre, in Fearnley Street, from 8pm on Monday evening (March 2) and text on the notice said “remembering our father”.
A Facebook post sharing the details said: “It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the Great Leader of Islam, His Late Eminence, Sayyed Ali Al-Hosseini Al-Khamenei, may Allah sanctify his soul and elevate his status.
“We gather not only to mourn, but to reflect. We gather to renew our covenant with Allah, to remain firm upon the wilayah of the Ahl al-Bayt (ʿalayhim al-salām), and to ask that we be written among those who do not waver or change."
The advertised speaker, Sayed Hussain Makke, has been criticised for publicly expressing support for the Iranian government as well as Hezbollah.
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He was barred from entering Australia last year after Sky News Australia reporting on his attendance at the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, which he described as being part of a "smear campaign" against him.
Al-Zahra Centre says the event was a private booking which it did not organise but was hosted at its site by another group.
The Watford Observer was told it was “not political” and involved a video-based programme in memory of all those killed in the conflict, rather than the Ayatollah specifically.
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