PREVIEW

Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives to pray with men during Eid Al-Adha holiday prayers at The Yancy Track & Field in New York, NY on May 27, 2026.

Hundreds of men, women and children attended wearing clean, colorful and expensive traditional clothes. Eid al-Adha translates from Arabic to 'Festival of Sacrifice' is one of the most important holidays in the Islamic calendar.

It honors the Prophet Ibrahim's (Abraham's in Judaism) absolute obedience to God, commemorating his willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of submission before God provided a ram to sacrifice instead