{"id":245477,"date":"2026-05-27T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:39:06","slug":"mamdani-brings-faith-and-arsenal-fandom-to-bronx-eid-al-adha-prayers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245477\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani brings faith and Arsenal fandom to Bronx Eid al-Adha prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=Mayor+Zohran+Mamdani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> marked Eid al-Adha on Wednesday morning with members of the Bronx\u2019s Muslim community, joining public prayers on the soccer field at Macombs Dam Park near Yankee Stadium while wearing a kurta styled after an Arsenal jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The outfit nodded to Mamdani\u2019s well-documented love of Arsenal, the north London soccer club. Recently, Hizzoner was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7307664\/2026\/05\/26\/brooklyn-invincibles-arsenal-new-york-city-zohran-mamdani-spike-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">among the fans celebrating Arsenal\u2019s Premier League title<\/a> with the Brooklyn Invincibles, a New York supporters group that gathers in Fort Greene.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani-bronx-eid-al-adha-prayers-05272026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMamdani brings faith and Arsenal fandom to Bronx Eid al-Adha prayers &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked Eid al-Adha on Wednesday morning with members of the Bronx\u2019s Muslim community, joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[128,98,100,99,65691,95899,5741,232,1445,9,24,63,6707,6016],"class_list":["post-245477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-eid","tag-eid-al-adha","tag-faith","tag-lifestyle","tag-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-vanessa-gibson","tag-yankee-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}