Solomon had been because of begin a study program at the American John Cabot University in Trastevere however his body was discovered tangled in vegetation in the Tiber River on Monday, three days after he disappeared.
Songs were sung at the vigil, which was held at the congregation of Santa Maria in Trastevere with agents of the U.S. consulate present.
"We are here this evening ... to ask together and we do it with our heart broken on account of the out of line and agonizing demise of Beau," area minister Marco Gnavi told the assembly.
A destitute Italian man was kept on Tuesday on suspicion of killing the 19-year-old American college understudy from Wisconsin.
Solomon's folks were comforted by Pope Francis on Wednesday yet were not present at Thursday's vigil.
"It is essential to be here in Rome and supplicate now that the family has flown back to the United States with the goal that we can kind of substitute them in this spot where he passed on to demonstrate the appreciation and warmth that he merited," Franco Pavoncello, Director of the University, said.
(Reporting by Reuters TV; Editing by Patrick Johnston)
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Educators and understudies partook in a candlelit vigil at a Rome church on Thursday for American understudy Beau Solomon, who police suspect was killed.
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