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After five years of intense reconstruction efforts, a Grand Reopening Ceremony will be held on Saturday to mark the return of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral before its doors open to the public once again on Sunday. The historic event comes after a devastating fire damaged the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Saturday's proceedings are set to begin at 7pm Paris Time (1pm ET / 10a PT) with French President Emmanuel Macron to deliver a speech from a tented area in front of the cathedral, which was devastated by a 2019 fire that destroyed its roof and spire. Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich will then lead the first full service inside Notre-Dame, symbolically reviving its refurbished 8,000-pipe organ and leading prayers and hymns under the new vaulted wooden roof of the 850-year-old Gothic monument. The evening will wrap up with a televised concert featuring music by Chinese pianist Lang Lang,
The reopening this weekend of the Notre-Dame Cathedral will include a succession of ceremonies to breathe life back into the iconic cathedral and celebrate the recovery from its devastating fire in 2019. High points will be the ritualised reopening of the cathedral's massive doors, the reawakening of its thunderous organ and the celebration of the first Mass. For both France and the Catholic Church, the televised and tightly scripted ceremonies will be an opportunity to display can-do resilience and global influence.
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