One week before the official reopening, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the construction site at the Notre-Dame Cathedral for a final time. The shock of the reopening will be as great as that of the fire which destroyed the world-famous church,

French President Emmanuel Macron has praised the more than 1,000 craftspeople who helped with “the project of the century” of rebuilding Paris ’ Notre-Dame Cathedral after it was gutted by a devastating fire.

Today Notre Dame has been rebuilt. The archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, will ceremonially open its doors for the first time since the fire on December 7th, and hold the first mass the next day. Against the odds,