Mandela remembered in British Westminster Abbey

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Nearly 2,000 people attended a memorial service held on Monday in the Westminster Abbey in London, to remember and thank the world-renowned statesman Nelson Mandela.

Prince Harry, Britain Prime Minister David Cameron, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Kgalema Motlanthe, deputy president of South Africa,as well as Mandela's daughters attended the memorial service to remember the first black president of South Africa and the anti-apartheid hero.

People who attended the event reviewed the video of Mandela in the past, and listened the choirs from South Africa.

A memorial stone for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was also laid in the abbey, which is one of the most notable religious buildings in Britain, and is regarded as the greatest honours to be buried and commemorated at the abbey.

Dubbed as "tata" or "father" in South Africa, Mandela, who had spent 27 years in prison, was widely regarded as an anti-apartheid activists.

Mandela died at the age of 95 on Dec. 5, 2013. He visited Westminister Abbey during a state visit in 1996.