{"id":85634,"date":"2025-12-31T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85634\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:38:06","slug":"zohran-mamdani-will-become-first-nyc-mayor-sworn-in-on-quran-when-he-takes-oath-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85634\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani will become first NYC mayor sworn in on Quran when he takes oath of office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani will be the first New York City mayor to be sworn in on a Quran\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/29\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-to-be-sworn-in-as-nyc-mayor-at-old-city-hall-subway-stop\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">when he takes office<\/a>\u00a0at midnight on Jan. 1, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, who will be the first Muslim and first socialist to lead City Hall, will use at least three different sets of Islam\u2019s holy book to take the oath of office during his private and public ceremonies Thursday, his spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The far-left pol is expected to use his grandfather\u2019s Quran and one that belonged to black writer and historian Arturo Schomburg, lent by the New York Public Library, during a private midnight ceremony at the abandoned Old City Hall subway station.<\/p>\n<p>New York City mayor elect Zohran Mamdani leaves his apartment building in Astoria, Queens on Dec. 31. 2025. Stephen Yang for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani will use Arturo Schomburg\u2019s Quran. Schomburg Center \/ New York Public Library<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani will be the first NYC mayor to be sworn in using the Quaran. noprati \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>City Hall prepares for the NYC Inaugration. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>During his daytime oath of office outside City Hall, he will again use his grandfather\u2019s religious book and at least one other family Quran,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/31\/nyregion\/mamdani-quran-inauguration-muslim.html?\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the New York Times first reported<\/a>\u00a0and Mamdani\u2019s rep confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>State Attorney General Letitia James will swear in Mamdani at midnight while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will deliver the oath of office to the democratic socialist later in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani will be the first New York City mayor to be sworn in on a Quran\u00a0when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6211,57,9,56,63,65,563,64,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-85634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-islam","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85634","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=85634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}