United States presidential inauguration

===Interfaith national prayer service===
[[File:P012213PS-0244 (8475772087).jpg|thumb|[[Barack Obama]], [[Michelle Obama]], [[Joe Biden]], and [[Jill Biden]] at the 2013 National Prayer Service]]
A tradition of an [[Interfaith dialogue|interfaith]] national prayer service, usually the day after the inauguration, dates back to [[George Washington]] and since [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], the prayer service has been held at the [[Washington National Cathedral]].<ref name=OHFFDOTSC>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22obamacnd.html |title=On His First Full Day, Obama Tackles Sobering Challenges |access-date=January 28, 2009 |date=January 21, 2009|work=The New York Times |last=Knowlton |first=Brian}}</ref> This is not the same as the Inaugural Prayer, a tradition also begun by Washington, when on June 1, 1789, Methodist bishops Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke, Rev. John Dickins, the pastor of Old St. George's (America's oldest Methodist Church) and Major Thomas Morrell, one of President Washington's former aides-de-camp called upon Washington in New York City.<ref>I The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury Chap. 18.</ref> This tradition resumed in 1985 with President Reagan and continues under the auspices of a Presidential Inaugural Prayer Committee based at Old St. George's.