A city’s cathedral is set to reopen after a £20m restoration project which has taken six years.
Salford Cathedral, officially known as St John the Evangelist Cathedral, will be reopened to the public on 4 July.
The project included repairs to stonework, roofs and stained-glass windows and implemented measures aimed at making the building environmentally sustainable.
“The parish are going to be absolutely blown away,” Pauline Morgan chief operating officer for the diocese, told Radio Manchester. “It is going to be an amazing place for them to come back and worship in.”
Morgan said the first services back in the cathedral were expected to be emotional.
“The Sunday Mass, when the bishop celebrates and the choir are back in here, you’ll have everything coming together. The music, the congregation and the worship in such beautiful surroundings,” she said.