According to witnesses from the scene, the driver drove his van towards the Finsbury Park mosque yelling, "I want to kill all Muslims!"
"There was this white van stopped outside Finsbury Park mosque that seemed to have hit people who were coming out after prayers had finished". On a Facebook post, he called on Londoners to "pull together".
Locals massing at barriers, angry at police, people confused about what has happened.
"At this stage in the investigation, it is believed that the suspect acted alone but we are of course investigating all the circumstances leading up to the attack", the Metropolitan police said in a statement.
Organisers, who arranged the event under the banner of "No To Islamophobia - Unity with Finsbury Park Mosque", say the attack occurred in a climate of attempts to demonise Muslims by sections of the press, commentators and some politicians.
"I was on my bike and he just came up to me and said, 'Inbred.' Just out there [on the road]".
Police said the 48-year-old man who was driving the van has been arrested and taken to a hospital as a precaution.
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Police has described the attack as a "terrorist incident". We'd say hello every day when dropping the kids off at school and he never had a problem with me at all. He was pronounced dead at the scene, though police are still investigating whether he died as a result of the collision itself.
Khadijeh Sherizi, who converted to Islam in 2003, said Osborne was usually polite and her children, who are Muslims, would play with his children most days.
Speaking to Sky News, Mahmoud said: "My faith is an integral part of me and it dictates everything about my decision-making, but at the same time as a human I can't allow another human to be harmed unnecessarily".
"A group of people began to collect around the assailant and some tried to kill him with kicks or punches".
Police on Tuesday questioned a man suspected of deliberately mowing down Muslim worshippers in North London, as the interior minister said Britain was "bruised but not broken" by a series of terror attacks.
Britain's terrorist alert has been set at "severe", meaning an attack is highly likely.
London police, already stretched by a series of major incidents around the capital, are putting more officers on the street to reassure the public after a driver plowed into a crowd of people leaving a mosque yesterday.
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