Overview

• The reopening features tributes to artisans, testimonies from firefighters and speeches by Culture Minister Rachida Dati, Bishop Laurent Percerou and Mayor Johanna Rolland.
• Doors were scheduled to open around 7 p.m. for the ceremonial "réveil" of the choir organ as public visits and worship resume.
• Work continues on the heavily damaged west massif, where roughly 90% of stones are being replaced and the west façade remains under scaffolding while the principal organ awaits reconstruction.
• Extensive depollution addressed soot and lead released by the destroyed great organ, and archaeological digs uncovered former nave foundations and several burials.
• The 2020 blaze was deliberately set at three points; Emmanuel Abayisenga confessed, received a four‑year prison sentence in 2023 and has been sent to an assize court in a separate murder case.