Notre Dame Rebuilt
A team of carpenters vowed crowds saturday while using medieval techniques to raise up by hand a 3 ton oak truss in front of notre dame cathedral in paris as part of the church s rebuild.
Notre dame rebuilt. Notre dame cathedral where work on the rebuild has been on hold since march 16 due to the coronavirus shutdown. The work is focused on continuing to remove the burned scaffolding that had surrounded the spire in 2019 the spire was undergoing restoration and was destroyed during the fire on april 15. Before reconstruction efforts could begin initial assessments were carried out to examine the extent of the damage. The restoration process hasn t gone according to plan.
On april 15 2019 the world watched in horror as notre dame cathedral burned. Shortly before the french revolution it was whitewashed leading one prominent critic to. The notre dame cathedral in paris went up in flames one year ago wednesday devastating one of the world s most remarkable places of worship. On june 8 construction resumed on notre dame cathedral after a three month pause due to the covid 19 pandemic.
Macron s decision comes the same day the country s new culture minister roselyne bachelot argued on the france inter radio station that the cathedral should be rebuilt to look identical to how. Paris s notre dame cathedral which was nearly totally lost to fire in april 2019 will be rebuilt as it was the french government says defying the calls of modernist architects to seize the opportunity to give the medieval masterpiece a glass and steel overhaul. Almost as quickly as the fire was extinguished there was a huge international outpouring of support and pledges to rebuild notre dame. The government announced that what was would again be.
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. Photo taken april 14 on the eve of the anniversary of the deveastating fire credit. The cathedral s oak rafters and lead roof would be replaced by oak rafters and a lead roof.