This is absolutely terrible, but it'll be rebuilt. The spire itself is "only" a couple of hundred years old.
Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris | 15th April 2019
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I have been watching Sky news for over an hour now , this is shocking, the fire looks to be get worse, not under control.
Yes, these types of fires do seem hard to stop, they just seem to spread. 
Fire in one of the towers is being reported
It made out of wood or something?
A fair bit of it yeah. It was built a while ago.
The loss of the Relics of Sainte-Chapelle would be more devastating than losing the actual building.
Never got the appeal of the Eiffel Tower. Just a hideous mass of girders. Opening up the space with no big eyesore would be more pleasant in my view.
Shocking. One of the world's most iconic buildings.
Gutted. I was just there in December and was looking forward to going back someday.
Thankfully they were saved and are intact. Absolutely heartbreaking to watch the fire destroy that beautiful building. It's one of the most amazing places I've ever visited.
They are not getting this fire under any sort of control !
The fire is massive
The fire is massive
Ok ... thats phrased badly. I'm not aware of any significance it has beyond being an impressive building thats been around a long time. The Palace at Versaille is impressive but a bunch of historically important stuff happened there also which adds to its significance. I suppose it has some potentially important relics but i kind of just assumed they were bogus tbh.
BBC News saying if the fire is not contained in the next 90 minutes then the whole building will be destroyed.
Fire looks really enormous from this side...
Fire looks really enormous from this side...
Holy shit
Pic not loading?
Huh?
You'd think someone would've rung a bell...
Damn that's a big fire
May be region locked. I can't see the pic.
Ah gotcha, it's a picture from another side of the building showing the scale of the fire.
NO!!
some French officials are saying that they might not be able to save it !!
This will be a massive lose if true.
This will be a massive lose if true.
Wow, this is terribly sad.
The symbol of a country, gone.
The symbol of a country, gone.
This is just.. Devastating.
I dont know when was the last time I was shocked with the a building being destroyed. Its not just the church, it's a symbol.
On another note, I read somewhere that around 2000 churches are to be destroyed in France cause cost of their restoration exceeds the cost of demolition. Dont know if its true or its already under way.
I dont know when was the last time I was shocked with the a building being destroyed. Its not just the church, it's a symbol.
On another note, I read somewhere that around 2000 churches are to be destroyed in France cause cost of their restoration exceeds the cost of demolition. Dont know if its true or its already under way.
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- 1170: Existence of a cathedral schooloperating at Notre-Dame. This corporation of teachers and students will evolve in 1200 into the University of Paris in an edict by King Philippe-Auguste.
- 1185: Heraclius of Caesarea calls for the Third Crusade from the still-incomplete cathedral.
- 1239: The Crown of Thorns is placed in the cathedral by St. Louis during the construction of the Sainte-Chapelle.
- 1302: Philip the Fair opens the first Estates General.
- 16 December 1431: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France.[32]
- 7 November 1455: Isabelle Romée, the mother of Joan of Arc, petitions a papal delegation to overturn her daughter's conviction for heresy.
- 1 January 1537: James V of Scotland is married to Madeleine of France
- 24 April 1558: Mary, Queen of Scots is married to the Dauphin Francis (later Francis II of France), son of Henry II of France.
- 18 August 1572: Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) marries Margaret of Valois. The marriage takes place not in the cathedral but on the parvis of the cathedral, as Henry IV is Protestant.[33]
- 10 September 1573: The Cathedral was the site of a vow made by Henry of Valoisfollowing the interregnum of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that he would both respect traditional liberties and the recently passed religious freedom law.[34]
- 10 November 1793: the Festival of Reason.
- 2 December 1804: the coronation ceremony of Napoleon I and his wife Joséphine, with Pope Pius VII officiating.
- 1831: The novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was published by French author Victor Hugo.
- 1900: Louis Vierne is appointed organist of Notre-Dame de Paris after a heavy competition (with judges including Charles-Marie Widor) against the 500 most talented organ players of the era. On 2 June 1937Louis Vierne dies at the cathedral organ (as was his lifelong wish) near the end of his 1750th concert.
- 11 February 1931: Antonieta Rivas Mercadoshot herself at the altar with a pistol that was the property of her lover Jose Vasconcelos. She died instantly.
- 26 August 1944: The Te Deum#ServiceMass takes place in the cathedral to celebrate the liberation of Paris. (According to some accounts the Mass was interrupted by sniper fire from both the internal and external galleries.)
- 12 November 1970: The Requiem Mass of General Charles de Gaulle is held.
- 26 June 1971: Philippe Petit surreptitiously strings a wire between the two towers of Notre-Dame and tight-rope walks across it. Petit later performed a similar act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
- 31 May 1980: After the Magnificat of this day, Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass on the parvis of the cathedral.
- January 1996: The Requiem Mass of François Mitterrand is held.
It's very important to Catholics, apart from being very important to citizens of France and anyone who values ancient and beautiful places of worship. It's a loss to the whole world.
cant believe this is happening, so tragic
Clearly a pre-apocalyptic sign.
Oh no
Surprised it took this long for someone to make a comment like that haha
You joke but those mildly to the right of you are claiming this is a sign of the death of Christianity in the West due to Islamic invasion.
We live in an insane world.
Just got out of the cinema, and my girl showed me the news. Feels so absurd.
Awful news.
Anyone else read the very interesting stuff about Joan of Arc's possible survival?:
http://www.monio.info/2012/04/27/claude-the-second-face-of-joan-of-arc/
Anyone else read the very interesting stuff about Joan of Arc's possible survival?:
http://www.monio.info/2012/04/27/claude-the-second-face-of-joan-of-arc/
Somebody should mention to the Sky news commentator that "The Blitz" was on London and NOT Paris ... she said it twice in 10 minutes
Some insurance company somewhere will be thinking ‘oh sh*t’.