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The entire length of the Cathedral of St John the Divine opened for worship on Sunday after years of cleanup from a fire that struck the world's largest Gothic cathedral in 2001.
The cathedral's 98-year-old Skinner organ was played for the first time since the fire, heralding a new beginning for the spiritual home of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
African drums boomed as the opening procession traversed the 183m length of the sanctuary with its 38m vaulted ceiling.
