Notre-Dame's New Stained-Glass Windows: What Every Visitor Should Know
By Hafid Assaoui · 2026-06-04
Notre-Dame has reopened with Claire Tabouret's contemporary stained-glass project at the center of a debate on heritage, theology and politics. Visit with a licensed Route33 guide.
Notre-Dame has just reopened after five years of painstaking reconstruction following the devastating fire of April 2019. For the first time since that night, visitors can step inside the cathedral and feel its silence, its light, and its 860 years of living history. But even as the scaffolding comes down, a new chapter of controversy is beginning — one that every visitor to Notre-Dame should understand before they walk through those ancient doo…