The cathedral was brought back to life five years after a blaze save some of its most iconic elements destroyed.

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,

Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on Saturday with a two-hour ceremony inside the famed cathedral’s gleaming, newly renovated interior.