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Fire breaks out at Notre Dame cathedral, developing situation [Update: major structural collapse - Art and other Assets Saved] (See Staff Post)
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The great pyramids were defiled thousands of years ago. Not much left to take now.
Seems like the main damage is located towards the altar.... Still, the fact the main nave is standing is very auspicious. From another picture, the statue beneath the cross also resisted the fire.
A lot of London's history is the city burning and rising anew. You should read about the old London Bridge that stood as the main way into City from Southwark for 600 years. Absolute fire hazard but sounded pretty incredible.
Looks way better than i thought it would. Great job by the firefighters to save as much as they did
Why did they remove the heads?
It's truly a miracle how much has been saved.
That's some amazing luck and work from the fire fighters. Happy to see the damage being not nearly as bad as I had imagined.
No idea, that's probably a normal part of the renovation work.
Oh wow. I wonder if it was possibly due to some faulty equipment, or a ground in an electrical system. Regardless, this is terrible news
Looks like they just need to do some cleanup, make sure everything is properly reinfornced, throw a new roof on there, and open it back up for business.
Now that pictures are coming out, Those firefighters are heroes, not only for saving what appears to be a majority of the main hall, the Stone structure around it and both north bell towers. But getting all of the artifacts out, along with those pieces of art.
The cleanup is going to be massive and take years, but in some divine way the structure still is standing.
The cleanup is going to be massive and take years, but in some divine way the structure still is standing.
That looks...well.... I didn't expect to be in that shape. According to pictures I saw from before the fire, some of it seems to be preserved. Hell of job and it was probably better not to drop tons of water on roof....
Also, the 'Crown of Thorns' relic has an amazing history and some people believe its the actual thing. It is at least 1000 years old.
Also, the 'Crown of Thorns' relic has an amazing history and some people believe its the actual thing. It is at least 1000 years old.
the altar and the cross are still standing.
well...this will take decades probably.
well...this will take decades probably.
It's called The Great Western Schism, or sometimes The War of the Three Popes.
I believe the heads were removed during the French revolution because they thought they were supposed to be kings or some bs
The renovation of the spire only was a 20 years project i think.
But maybe doing a renovation probably can take more time than rebuilding the thing from scratch.
The Stone Archroof mostly held which spared much more damage of the interior. As well the bells were saved from any sort of collapse which would have done even more damage. The largest Bell is 13 tons by itself. How sturdy that stoneroof is though is hard to say it could give way at anytime
Yes, but it's a lot better than the whole thing being destroyed.
They removed the heads of the stone statues on ground level which were indeed statues of kings. I don't know about these copper statues that were high on the spire though.
American as well. My wife and I were lucky to go to Paris two years ago and just walk around admiring the buildings. It's was amazing. So much history and detail. I carried along pictures my grandfather took while he was there during WW2 and matched them with taking my own. Amazing stuff.
The Mosques in Cairo are the result of the defilement. So whenever you see the limestone on the mosques, you are probably looking at the original exterior of the pyramids.
The statues were made decades after the French Revolution....
In actual reality they were probably cast separately and separated for the purposes of safely craning them up via the inside of the torso.
That would make sense: the spire was located directly above the altar.
the history of great buildings is as much about what they survived as anything really. places like the collessium or the aya sofia or the acropolis have such power and inspire such awe because they've existed through lifetimes and lifetimes and are not static objects but ever changing ones, having different meanings at different moments & always bearing the visible scars of our history. notre dame is more powerful than ever at this moment.
That's some good engineering all right. Well done to people today and those who built it 800 years ago.
