After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday, with rebuilt ceilings and stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. French President Emmanuel Macron was among the first to tour it.

First look inside Notre Dame as it reopens 5 years after devastating fire

After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday, with rebuilt ceilings and stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. French President Emmanuel Macron was among the first to tour it.