Following their visit to counties Galway and Sligo, the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have been visiting Northern Ireland today.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will carry out a number of engagements over the next two days.
The royal couple is on the third of a four-day visit to the island of Ireland.
The theme of today's visit is recognition of peace and reconciliation, as well as heritage, community, conservation and innovation.
On arrival in Belfast, the royal couple visited St Patrick's Church, Donegall Street.
The church is situated in one of the most historic, yet economically deprived areas of Belfast, and has often witnessed sectarian unrest.
It has been at the centre of a series of bitter marching disputes involving Protestant loyal orders and loyalist bands.
Last month, 13 members of one loyalist band were convicted of playing a sectarian tune, the so-called Famine Song, while marching in a circle outside the chapel.
The couple met a cross-section of parishioners and organisations involved in the wide range of church activities.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness also attended the event.
The priest at St Patrick's Church, Fr Michael Sheehan, said he believed the visit was a sign of solidarity from Charles.
"Hopefully it's a small step forward," he said. "Some people will be willing to follow that step, others may not yet be willing to follow that step on that journey, and others might never follow that step.
"But I think it's a step toward reconciliation and an acknowledgement of both pain and suffering on both sides of our community."
He added: "I think that standing with solidarity is a very positive message coming from the prince."
Close by, senior Sinn Féin politicians stood with protesters who lost loved ones in Ballymurphy in 1971. They were shot by members of the British Army's parachute regiment. Prince Charles is its colonel in chief.
Following this, Prince Charles visited East Belfast Network on Templemore Avenue and heard how this organisation provides a vital service to the local east Belfast community by pulling together a number of organisations which helps develop closer working links with various sections of the community.
The Prince of Wales has said he was encouraged by efforts to bring Northern Ireland's two communities together during his visit to East Belfast.
His Prince's Regeneration Trust helped bring the inner city East Belfast Network Centre to life through a £3.6 million facelift.
The former school, which survived bombing during the Second World War and the worst years of the Troubles, fell victim to falling pupil numbers in 1976 and was left derelict and boarded up.
Charles said: "I have been watching with great interest the work of my regeneration trust over quite some years in order to help all of you bring this back to life.
"Having met several people here today who were at school here I am even more delighted and thrilled that I have had a chance to see this building restored back to life and being used in such an incredible, valuable and worthwhile way.
"The fact that it is working so well to bring members of both communities together in such an effective way is even more encouraging."
The Prince was presented with a painting by Irish artist Ross Wilson of a 1927 photograph of the preserved building when it opened as Templemore School.
Two years ago rioting broke out nearby following unionist protests against restrictions on flying the Union flag from Belfast's city hall. East Belfast has also seen regular trouble related to loyal order parades.
The centre sits in the heart of East Belfast, on a peace line between Protestant and Catholic communities.
During his visit, Charles was presented with a book of memories of the Templemore Avenue school by the oldest former pupil, Esther Hamilton, 91, who reopened the centre last year.
She attended between 1935 and 1938 and said she was delighted to meet him.
He also met Rachael Lloyd, three, on her tricycle in the Oasis Early Years Centre, which rents accommodation in the building.
Other services provided include bereavement counselling, art therapy, anti-suicide and young people's organisations.
Charles donned headphones as he listened to the East Belfast Talking Newspaper.
The prince continues his visit to Northern Ireland tomorrow.
On returning to Hillsborough Castle, he will have private audiences with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland as well as the First and Deputy First Ministers.
Separately, Camilla has undertaken visits to the Big Lunch Project at the Skainos Centre, as well as Ballyhackamore Credit Union.
This evening, the couple will attend a reception and evening of music, song and word at Hillsborough Castle, which will showcase the best of local musical talent and artists.
Tomorrow will see them visit Mount Stewart to see first-hand the £8m (€11.25m) restoration project by the National Trust.
The restoration will show the house completely transformed, refurbished and re-presented to visitors.
This is the largest and most significant restoration programme the National Trust has undertaken in Northern Ireland for decades.
The final engagement of the day will be to Corrymeela Community situated on the north Antrim coast.
This community is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and has been a place of gathering, work, faith and discussion; bringing people of different backgrounds, different political and religious beliefs and different identities together.
Charles says West of Ireland visit was 'very special'
Prince Charles departed Shannon Airport this morning following his and the Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles' visit to the West of Ireland expressing his delight with the two days.
Boarding the jet for Belfast at Shannon, Prince Charles uttered three words that summed up his experience: "special, very special," he stated.
On hand to greet Prince Charles before his departure were Minister for Justice and Equality Frances Fitzgerald, Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan, Shannon Group Chairman Rose Hynes, Shannon Group CEO Neil Pakey, Irish Ambassador to the UK Dan Mulhall and Clare County Council Deputy Mayor Joe Cooney.
Yesterday Charles made an emotional trip to Mullaghmore in Co Sligo - the picturesque fishing village where his great uncle Lord Mountbatten and three others were murdered by the IRA in 1979.
