Notre Dame Cathedral

This combination photo shows, from top left, clockwise, the scaffolding around the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral spire being removed from Jan. 24, 2024 to March 6, 2024. Scaffolding has enshrouded Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris since a 2019 fire destroyed its spire and roof and threatened to collapse the whole medieval structure. After an unprecedented international reconstruction effort, the scaffolding is at last starting to peel away. (AP Photos captured from La Tour d'Argent restaurant/Alexander Turnbull)

Notre Dame Cathedral’s restoration has been a 5-year journey of dedication and recovery

The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral following a tragic blaze in April 2019 is a story of dedication and recovery.
 
Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich places the relics of a fragment of Christ's crown of thorns and remains of St. Denis and St. Genevieve into the replica of the golden rooster before being craned up to the top of the spire as part of restoration works of Notre Dame Cathedral Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. Notre Dame Cathedral got its rooster back Saturday, in a pivotal moment for the Paris landmark's restoration following the devastating fire in April 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

In pivotal moment, Notre Dame Cathedral spire gets golden rooster weathervane, a symbol of a phoenix

 
French President Emmanuel Macron watches Notre Dame cathedral from the top of the spire of the monument Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Notre Dame Cathedral on Friday, marking the one-year countdown to its reopening in 2024 following extensive restoration after the fire four years ago. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France’s president visits Notre Dame a year before the fire-damaged cathedral’s planned reopening

 
FILE - General Jean-Louis Georgelin who is to oversee reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral, attends an interview in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. The decorated French general in charge of big-budget restoration work on fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has died on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. Jean-Louis Georgelin was 74. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French general overseeing restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, Jean-Louis Georgelin, dies at 74

 
A crane lifts a huge oak frame at Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 in Paris. The panels are due to be reassembled on the top of Notre Dame to replace the roof that flames turned into ashes in 2019. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Oak trusses raised to roof of fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral as crowds watch along the Seine

 

Removal of scaffolding enshrouding the summit of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral gets underway

Removal of scaffolding enshrouding the summit of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral gets underway
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Notre Dame Cathedral celebrates restoration milestone, on track to reopen in 2024

Oak roof frames lifted on top of Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s path to restoration is one step closer

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FILE - Charles, one of the carpenters puts the skills of their medieval colleagues on show on the plaza in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. France's Notre Dame Cathedral's reconstruction is progressing enough to allow its reopening to visitors and masses at the end of next year, less than six years after the after the shocking fire that tore through its roof, French officials said as an exhibit pays tribute to hundreds of artisans working on it. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Paris: Notre Dame Cathedral set to reopen in December 2024

French officials say the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024.
 

Macron visits Notre Dame on fire anniversary

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Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral's rector Patrick Chauvet gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated-Press at Saint Germain l'Auxerrois church in Paris, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris’ Notre Dame rector offers hope to virus-hit worshipers

PARIS (AP) — Worshipers in face masks filed into Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois Church across from the Louvre Museum on Friday for Christmas Eve Mass, and were greeted by the rector of the closed Notre Dame Cathedral.
 
Models wear creations for Acne Studios Spring-Summer 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show presented Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Chloe attracts the stars at outdoor eco-show in Paris

Before Notre Dame cathedral and with the Seine River lapping near their designer heels, actresses Gillian Anderson and Demi Moore have stepped out in style to attend Chloe’s eco-minded outdoors runway show on the Parisian Left Bank.
 
FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, April 15, 2021, Notre Dame cathedral shrouded in scaffolding in Paris. After more than two-years of work to stabilize and protect it after the shocking fire that tore through its roof and knocked down its spire, France’s Notre Dame Cathedral is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it, according to a government statement Saturday Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, FILE)

France’s Notre Dame cathedral secured at last. Next: rebuild

France’s Notre Dame Cathedral is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it.
 
Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit prays during the Washing of the Feet ceremony for Maundy Thursday, in Notre Dame Cathedral, Thursday, April 1, 2021, almost two years after a massive fire ravaged the Gothic cathedral. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

Holy Thursday service held at fire-ravaged Notre Dame

PARIS (AP) — A Holy Thursday service in Paris was held at Notre Dame cathedral, which is still under construction after it was ravaged by flames just days before Easter in 2019, its spire crumbling in a shocking blaze.
 
FILE - In this Sunday, April 21, 2019 file photo, workers fix a net to cover one of the iconic stained glass windows of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Notre Dame cathedral officials have said Friday, March 5, 2021 the first eight oaks destined to replace the spire of the scorched Paris monument have been selected from the Berce forest in the French Loire region. The iconic spire that was 96 metres (315 ft) high was completely destroyed in the fire that ravaged the Paris cathedral in 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file)

First oak trees selected to replace Notre Dame’s spire

PARIS (AP) — The first eight oak trees destined to replace the destroyed spire of Paris’ scorched Notre Dame cathedral have been selected from the Bercé forest in the French Loire region, church officials said on Friday.
 
Faithful wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus attend Christmas vespers at the Saint Germain l'Auxerrois church in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Christmas Eve concert held in Paris’ fire-wrecked Notre Dame

PARIS (AP) — Wearing hard hats and protective suits, members of the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year’s devastating fire for a special Christmas Eve concert.
 
General Jean-Louis Georgelin who is to oversee reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral, attends an interview after carpenters put the skills of their Medieval colleagues on show on the plaza in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, the day honoring European heritage, by reproducing for the public a section of the elaborate carpentry used when the edifice was built. The elaborate wooden beams went up in flames in a devastating April 2019 fire that also toppled the spire of the cathedral, now being renovated. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Carpenters wow public with medieval techniques at Notre Dame

PARIS (AP) — With precision and boundless energy, a team of carpenters used medieval techniques to raise up — by hand — a three-ton oak truss Saturday in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, a replica of the wooden structures that were consumed in the landmark’s devastating April 2019 fire that also toppl
 
FILE - This July 17, 2019 file photo shows the big organ during preliminary work at the Notre-Dame de Paris, in Paris. Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart. The mammoth task of dismantling, cleaning and re-assembling France's largest musical instrument started Monday Aug.3, 2020 and is expected to last nearly four years. (Stephane de Sakutin/Pool via AP, File)

Pipe by pipe, Notre Dame Cathedral organ gets 4-year cleanup

PARIS (AP) — Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year’s devastating fire.
 
Fire fighters brigade work to extinguish the blaze at the Gothic St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in Nantes, western France, Saturday, July 18, 2020. The fire broke, shattering stained glass windo...

Fire at French cathedral in Nantes destroys famed organ

NANTES, France (AP) — French officials launched an arson inquiry Saturday after a fire broke out in the famed Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St.
 
Workers walk through a scaffolding at Notre Dame cathedral, Friday, July 10, 2020 in Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral will be rebuilt just the way it stood before last year's devastating fire. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Notre Dame Cathedral to be rebuilt without modern touches

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral will be rebuilt just the way it stood before last year’s devastating fire.
 

Notre Dame forecourt opens to public after long cleanup

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral’s forecourt is being opened up to the public for the first time since the devastating fire of April 15 last year.
 
FILE - In this April 15 2019, file photo, Notre Dame Cathedral burns in Paris. The cathedral stands crippled, locked in a dangerous web of twisted metal scaffolding one year after a cataclysmic fire gutted its interior, toppled its famous spire and horrified the world. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

A year after blaze, Notre Dame restoration halted by virus

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral stands crippled and isolated, locked in a dangerous web of warped metal scaffolding one year after a devastating fire gutted its interior, toppled its famous spire and horrified the world.
 
A man wearing a face mask rides his bike in front of Notre Dame cathedral during a nationwide confinement to counter the Covid-19, in Paris, Sunday, April 5, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Still scarred, Notre Dame lives anew in coronavirus crisis

PARIS (AP) — Still damaged and scarred by fire, Notre Dame Cathedral came back to life — if only for a fleeting instant — as a center for prayer on Friday in a Paris locked down against the coronavirus.
 
Believers the christmas mass, in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois church, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Re...

Renovation chief: Notre Dame Cathedral is not saved yet

PARIS (AP) — The French general overseeing the reconstruction of fire-devastated Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is not saved yet because there’s still a risk its vaulted ceilings might collapse.
 
In this photo taken on Tuesday Dec. 3, 2019, Notre Dame cathedral rector Patrick Chauvet talks to the Associated Press, in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois church, in Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral kept holding services during two world wars as a beacon of hope amid bloodshed and fear. It took a fire in peacetime to finally stop Notre Dame from celebrating Christmas Mass for the first time in more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

No Christmas at Notre Dame, as fire forces Mass into exile

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply damaged by this year’s fire.
 
In this photo taken on Tuesday Dec. 3, 2019, Notre Dame cathedral rector Patrick Chauvet talks to the Associated Press, in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois church, in Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral kept holding services during two world wars as a beacon of hope amid bloodshed and fear. It took a fire in peacetime to finally stop Notre Dame from celebrating Christmas Mass for the first time in more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Notre Dame Cathedral to miss first Christmas in centuries

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars — a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed.
 

Removal of Notre Dame’s melted scaffold to begin ‘in weeks’

PARIS (AP) — Melted scaffolding atop fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral will be removed “in the coming weeks” to allow restoration work to begin next year, France’s culture minister said Tuesday.
 
Police officers patrol in a rubber boat on the Seine river after an incident at the police headquarters in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. A French police union official says an attacker armed with a knife has killed one officer inside Paris police headquarters before he was shot and killed. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Civilian employee kills 4 in knife attack at Paris police HQ

PARIS (AP) — A civilian employee raged through Paris police headquarters with a knife Thursday, stabbing four police colleagues to death before he was shot and killed, French authorities said.
 
Catholic clergymen and pilgrims take part in an emotional procession with the statue of the Virgin Mary rescued from the April blaze past the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral to celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin in Paris, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Lead scrubbed from Paris streets as Notre Dame work resumes

PARIS (AP) — Specialists shoring up fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral returned Monday to the Paris site for the first time in nearly a month, this time wearing disposable underwear and other protective gear after a delay prompted by fears of lead contamination.
 

Paris streets near Notre Dame to be decontaminated from lead

PARIS (AP) — Paris authorities shut down streets surrounding the Notre Dame Cathedral to decontaminate them Tuesday, after high levels of lead were registered in the area following the April blaze that damaged the landmark.
 
Environmental groups and unionists attend a news conference to warn against lead particles polluting the air in the area, and ask for a regularly updated chart showing pollution levels in Paris, France, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. Hundreds of tons of toxic lead in Notre Dame's spire and roof melted during the April fire. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Paris child at risk of lead poisoning after Notre Dame fire

PARIS (AP) — Health officials in Paris said Wednesday that a young boy needs medical monitoring because tests conducted after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire showed that he was at risk of lead poisoning.
 
Environmental groups and unionists attend a news conference to warn against lead particles polluting the air in the area, and ask for a regularly updated chart showing pollution levels in Paris, France, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. Hundreds of tons of toxic lead in Notre Dame's spire and roof melted during the April fire. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

France: Groups want Notre Dame enclosed during lead cleanup

PARIS (AP) — Environmental groups and one of France’s largest labor unions called Monday for a containment shield and other safety measures to ensure decontamination work at Notre Dame Cathedral does not expose workers and residents to unsafe levels of lead.
 

French group sues over toxic lead from Notre Dame fire

PARIS (AP) — A French group has filed a lawsuit over potential public health threats from lead that was released into the environment during Notre Dame Cathedral’s devastating fire.
 

Paris prosecutor: no sign Notre Dame fire of criminal origin

PARIS (AP) — A preliminary investigation found no evidence to suggest that a fire that gutted large parts of Notre Dame Cathedral was criminal, the prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.
 
The Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit leads the first mass in a side chapel, two months after a devastating fire engulfed the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, Saturday June 15, 2019, in Paris. (Karine Perret, Pool via AP)

Notre Dame celebrates 1st Mass since devastating April fire

PARIS (AP) — The archbishop wore a hard-hat helmet, burnt wood debris was still visible and only about 30 people were let inside, but Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday held its first Mass since the devastating April 15th fire that ravaged its roof and toppled its masterpiece spire.
 
FILE. In this April 15, 2019 file photo, flames rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral's melted roof has left astronomically high lead levels in the plaza outside and adjacent roads. Paris police say lead levels from the roof were found to be between 10 and 20 grams per kilogram of ground — between 32 and 65 times the recommended limit by French health authorities of 0.3 grams per kilogram. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Notre Dame’s melted roof leaves astronomical lead levels

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral’s melted roof has left astronomically high lead levels in the plaza outside and adjacent roads.
 

Iowa researchers use laser scans to map state’s landmarks

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — When Robert Bork, an art history professor at the University of Iowa, saw Notre Dame Cathedral in flames recently, he couldn’t watch.
 
People watch and photograph the Notre Dame cathedral after the fire in Paris, Tuesday, April 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

PHOTOS: Notre Dame fire aftermath

 
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