Notre-Dame de Paris
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To see it in flames is extremely sad !
Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is currently on fire, and firefighters are working ...
Well, that was of course before the tragic fire....An artist takes inspiration from the amazing view of Notre Dame (an original point of view !!! ) in a dramatic sky.
Surviving 850 years of uprisings, wars, good times, millions of tourists and climate change only to be wiped out in a few short hours by a 21st century renovation . . . These are the days when if there is a God, we're being very tested.
How wonderful that already $300 million has been pledged to it's rebuilding and how wonderful that so many precious objects inside are saved. The cathedral will survive.
Notre-Dame Paris .... Cleaning, scaffolding, dismantling of the great organ, test sites on two chapels, damaged vaults ... After more than two years of work, Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral completed this summer the securing of his site.
Ma photo, prise en 2012, avait été coup de coeur du jury "Objectif Seine " en 2014 et exposée sur les murs de Paris.Je lui doit donc beaucoup , comme à Flickr .
Notre-Dame de Paris, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame Cathedral or Cathedral of Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris.
The cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary ("Our Lady"), is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. Several attributes set it apart from the earlier Romanesque style, including its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress, its enormous and colourful rose windows, and the naturalism and abundance of its sculptural decoration. Notre-Dame is also exceptional for its three pipe organs (one historic) and its immense church bells.
The construction of the cathedral began in 1163 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and was largely completed by 1260, though it was modified in succeeding centuries. In the 1790s, during the French Revolution, Notre-Dame suffered extensive desecration; much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. In the 19th century, the cathedral hosted the coronation of Napoleon and the funerals of many of the French Republic's presidents. The 1831 publication of Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (English title: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) inspired interest which led to restoration between 1844 and 1864, supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. On 26 August 1944, the Liberation of Paris from German occupation was celebrated in Notre-Dame with the singing of the Magnificat. Beginning in 1963, the cathedral's façade was cleaned of soot and grime. Another cleaning and restoration project was carried out between 1991 and 2000. A fire in April 2019 caused serious damage, closing the cathedral for extensive and costly repairs; it reopened in December 2024.
It is a widely recognised symbol of both the city of Paris and the French nation. In 1805, it was awarded honorary status as a minor basilica. As the cathedral of the archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame contains the cathedra or seat of the archbishop of Paris (currently Laurent Ulrich). In the early 21st century, about 12 million people visited Notre-Dame annually, making it the most visited monument in Paris.
Since 1905, Notre-Dame, like the other cathedrals in France, has been owned by the French government, with the exclusive rights of use granted to the French Roman Catholic Church. The French government is responsible for its maintenance.
Over time, the cathedral has gradually been stripped of many decorations and artworks. It still contains Gothic, Baroque, and 19th-century sculptures, 17th- and early 18th-century altarpieces, and some of the most important relics in Christendom, including the crown of thorns, and a sliver and nail from the True Cross.
It was a stunning experience yesterday to see video of this beautiful cathedral in flames. This photo was taken from a sightseeing boat late in the day in 2006; It was strongly backlit so I pulled what detail I could out of it. Thinking of my Flickr friends in France.
I was looking through an old SD card from my 12 hours in Paris five years ago and found tons of "lost" photos from climbing up Notre Dame -- this is a 13-photo stitch that in hindsight provides an eerie vantage point to what would become ground zero for the fire. That's the base of the spire at right. I hope to be back on a fully restored version of this rooftop one day.