Westgate shopping mall and massacred at least 67 people.
The country is on high alert for the anniversary, especially amid fears of retaliatory Shabab attacks after their reclusive leader and the alleged mastermind of the Westgate attack, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed at the start of this month in a US air strike in southern Somalia.
In Nairobi's Karura forest, close to 2,500 people, many of them survivors or bereaved families, were holding
inter-faith prayers and a memorial procession. A plaque bearing the names of the victims will also be unveiled.
Relatives of the victims will also lay wreaths of flowers at a garden in the forest where 67 tree seedlings were
planted last year, and commemorations will end later in the day with a candlelight concert at the National Museum, the venue of a memorial exhibition that opened this week.
All four gunmen were believed to have died in the mall, their bodies burned and crushed by tonnes of rubble after a section of the complex collapsed following a fierce blaze started by the fighting.
However, the extremists have launched a string of subsequent
attacks in Kenya, including a wave of massacres in the coastal region, which has badly affected the country's key tourist industry.
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