Out of the flames, into the light – Notre-Dame restored
It will be an end of exile as Paris reclaims its cathedral and Notre-Dame’s organ (one of Europe’s finest) resounds for the first time in five years.
photo: Alamy/AP, Christophe Petit Tesson
As dusk falls today, Archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich will knock three times with his episcopal staff on Notre-Dame’s west door. In response, the Maîtrise, the cathedral’s choir, will chant a verse from Psalm 122 (“I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord’”). At the third knock, the door will open wide to reveal Notre-Dame reborn, restored and wreathed in light.
After a remarkable restoration, Notre-Dame, Paris’s great Gothic cathedral, prepares to welcome worshippers for the first time since the 2019 fire that almost destroyed it
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