After a thorough restoration, workers are returning the 150-year-old copper statues to the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

All was not lost at Notre Dame. The religious statues that sat atop the cathedral were recently removed as part of a $6.8 million renovation of the towering spire that fell to the ground in Monday ...

PARIS — A slender taper of latticework, its filigree etched in flame against a smoke-darkened sky. Falling. When the world’s most recognizable cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris, burned on April ...

Scaffolding and a giant crane towering above the cathedral in 2022. The Notre Dame is due to reopen on December 8, 2024, after a 5-year restoration effort.

Notre-Dame Cathedral, which is due to reopen on Saturday, December 7, is a great book of stone: ... The many statues you see are part of a vast symbolic ensemble that must be deciphered.

The statues were designed in 1857 by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc as part of his radical restoration of the cathedral—of which the soaring 96m spire was one of the most dramatic symbols.

PARIS — The project to save Notre Dame started with hundreds of firefighters who worked through the night of April 15, 2019, to contain the blaze and prevent the cathedral’s collapse.

Notre Dame Cathedral was ravaged by a fire on April 15, 2019. AFP via Getty Images. ... Other famed artwork, including statues dedicated to the 12 apostles and four Gospel writers, ...

Notre-Dame began construction in 1163, but it was almost a century later that the cathedral was considered complete, in 1260. Before the 2019 fire it was one of the most-visited sites in Paris ...

On Saturday, December 7, 2024, President-elect Donald J. Trump will attend the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. The visit to Paris marks his first foreign trip since winning the 2024 election ...

The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris is a treasure. First built in the 13th century, it came to be known and celebrated around the world as a prime example of medieval architecture and engineering.