Following an enormous, expensive restoration effort after the devastating 2019 fire, the Paris cathedral has reopened to the world, at once recognizably itself and possessed of a startling new vibrancy.

The solemn reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral put Paris in the center of the Catholic world on the evening of Dec. 7 as the archbishop of France's capital struck the magnificent door with his pastoral staff,

Dame cathedral will reopen, five years after a fire the storied medieval landmark will reopen its doors once again.