Landmark church reopens after fire
African drums boomed and pipe organ music swelled as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine opened for worship after years of cleanup from a 2001 fire that struck the world’s largest Gothic cathedral.
The cathedral’s 98-year-old Skinner organ was played for the first time since the Dec. 18, 2001, fire at the church that is the spiritual home of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and firefighters who had battled the blaze joined church officials and 3,800 parishioners at the rededication service.
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