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The Notre-Dame cathedral was destroyed in a fire two years ago.
The Gothic cathedral will be rebuilt in a historically accurate manner.The restoration of Notre-Dame will take a long time.
Two years have passed since a fire ripped through Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.To mark the sad occasion, the French President visited the building site along with ministers, architects, and other officials to see how the restoration of the 12th-century monument is progressing.
In two years, a huge job has been accomplished, according to the president.What remains to be done is what we see.
Two years after the fire, the Gothic church is closed to the public.While the stained-glass rose windows, rectangular towers, and priceless Christian relics all survived the blaze, work on other parts of the structure slowed due to coronaviruses in Paris.
The scaffolding around the spire was removed by November 2020 after the fire broke out in 2019.The risk of the damaged scaffolding collapsing and causing further damage has been mitigated by the progress of reconstruction work.
The five-year restoration deadline was set in the days after the fire.It could take 15 to 20 years to rebuild the roof, spire, and parts of stone vaulting that fell through the main sanctuary, according to French officials and experts.
It is not unusual for cathedrals of this stature to take hundreds of years to be built.The construction of Notre-Dame began in 1163.After decades of funding issues and a civil war delayed construction, the cornerstone for Barcelona's Sagrada Familia was laid in 1884.The Gothic cathedral in Cologne, Germany, was damaged during World War II.
Both of the unfinished buildings are currently open to the public.The goal is for Notre-Dame to be open for worship before the full restoration is done.
The goal...It is to bring Notre-Dame back to worshippers.Mass will be able to be held in the cathedral in 2024, according to a spokesman for the restoration.
Take a look at the scenes from the cathedral before and after the fire to get an idea of what needs to be done.
French officials decided to restore Notre-Dame the way it was before the fire, despite the architects' plans to rebuild it with a glass spire, rooftop garden, and other modern touches.According to a statement from the state agency overseeing the project, Macron approved plans to rebuild Notre-Dame in a historically accurate manner on July 9, 2020, despite initially pushing for a modern spire to be built on top of the cathedral.
The plans presented in July 2020 include replicating architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc's 19th-century spire that collapsed in the fire with original materials to guarantee the authenticity, harmony and coherence of this masterpiece of Gothic art.
The frame for the cathedral's transept and spire was made from 1,000 oak trees cut from 200 French forests.
In order to rebuild with the same materials and techniques used when the rest of Notre-Dame was built in the 12th century, skilled artisans including quarrymen, carpenters, mortar makers, and master stonecutters would need to be hired.The secretary-general of Les Compagnons du Devoir said that it would take up to a decade to train new talent in such trades.At least 400 new people would need to be trained to complete the work.
The cost of the consolidation phase was 165 million euros.The money went toward stabilizing the vaults inside the cathedral, as well as removing the scaffolding at the time of the fire.
A major European insurer is comparing the renovation project on Notre-Dame to the renovations currently being done on the British Parliament buildings in London.
The costs of scaffolding and securing the building are going to be huge.Robert Read is the head of art and private client at Lloyd's of London insurer Hiscox.
Donations poured in immediately after the fire from individual contributors, as well as companies like Apple and Disney.The wealthy French families behind Kering and LVMH made pledges of 200 million and 100 million, respectively.Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior are two of the major French fashion houses that are owned by LVMH and Kering.
The government owns Notre-Dame.The Ministry of Culture has only given 2 million for repairs in the past.Individual donations can be made through an online portal to four official foundations supported by the French government.
This article was contributed by the Associated Press.The article was updated on July 10, 2020, and again on April 15, 2021, to include current information.