Roman Catholics from India led a re-creation in Keighley of Jesus Christ's final walk to his crucifixion.

Members of the congregation from St Anne's Church, Keighley, walked around Holy Family School grounds on Good Friday.

They carried a wooden cross as they walked between 12 large crosses placed into the ground. The group sang hymns in both English and Indian languages and kneeled at each cross to listen to their priest, Father Sean Gilligan.

The Stations of the Cross ceremony is traditionally carried out among Catholic worshippers in India.

Sojan Matthew, one of the Indian worshippers, said each cross recalled a different aspect of the Easter story.

The Indian Catholics abstained from normal meals for the 24 hours before the ceremony, only eating rice and rice soup. Fr Gilligan said Keighley's Indian Christian community was originally made up of people invited here to work in the health service.

Some settled in Keighley, bringing over their husbands or wives. Most of the Indian Christians attend St Anne's Church, in North Street, while others are Baptists or Methodists. The families introduced fellow St Anne's members to the stations of the cross last year, with a smaller version of the ceremony.

This year the original plan was to walk on Ilkley Moor, above East Morton, with about 100 people walking from cross to cross.

Fr Gilligan said the site was switched to Holy Family on health and safety grounds.

He said the church did not get the necessary permission from landowners on the moor before the event. He said: "There's a footpath but if you deviate from it you might get in trouble with the owners. If you have 60 or 70 people and there are other walkers you have to get off the path."