Notre Dame

Saw it earlier on the news, terrible...

 

It's a very beautiful building, I hope they manage to save it or at least most of it. I see the spire has gone

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...aris-france-stream-video-latest-a8871471.html

 

Really sad news.

850 years old and gone in a few hours.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47941794

 

The bells, the bells should’ve warned them.

 

The whole roof and the main spire have gone. So have Old leaded glass windows.
The building can be (Should be) rebuilt, but some of the contents are irreplaceable so I hope they’ve been saved.
That’s going to be quite some jigsaw puzzle if they can find the shards of stained glass to re-lead.

 

One of the Bell Towers now on fire, looks as though it could be totalled!

 

Bad news, iconic building. I think restoration work was taking place...hope nobody was working without a 'hot work permit'!

 

I feel a begging bowl coming on..

 

It can be rebuilt, but what a loss! 12000 oak trees from 12th century. Remembering it as it was.

 

Such a shame a lot of fine crafstmanship..cannot even think how hard it must have been to build that with the tools they had back then.

 

I'm pretty sure with France being a secular country, that the larger historic churches are owned by the country so the tax payer would be paying for any rebuild? saying that macron has announced fundraising to rebuild

 

And there's me thinking that the catholic church would pay for it all.