A Muslim man was stabbed at a London mosque during afternoon prayers Thursday, according to police.

The man was taken to a hospital after he was stabbed at London Central Mosque near Regent’s Park just after 3 p.m.

“He was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital,” a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. “We await an update on his condition.”

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Images apparently from the scene posted on Twitter show police holding down a man wearing a red jumpsuit on the mosque floor.

Witnesses said the man who was stabbed is the mosque’s muezzin, the person who calls Muslims to pray.

A man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder.

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On Wednesday, a “far-right extremist” shot and killed nine people at a hookah bar in Germany.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.