This picture is surreal:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/04/15/briefing/15evening-briefing-slide-STYI/15evening-briefing-slide-STYI-jumbo.jpg?quality=90
Fire-fighters entering
This is absolutely heartbreaking. I wonder what started the fire.
https://twitter.com/BreakingNAlerts/status/1117921140163403777
While the roof and spire are almost completely gone, the interior is mostly saved. The nef did collapse where the spire fell but looks like most of the stone is preserved.
As saddening and harrowing an event this is, we should remember that the Notre Dame has experiences a lot, and yet has remained with us all this time
https://66.media.tumblr.com/5991819c9dfee1ce6d6de1aabff8b09e/tumblr_od948jzsHt1txdeaio1_1280.jpg
It will be repaired again, don't fret.
Isn't that picture of Rheims, not Notre Dame? France has a lot of gothic cathedrals that all look pretty similar.
Double checked and you're right. My bad.
Yep, that's Reims.
donno if this video was posted yet
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225943/d5d9a59b-cfeb-4b3c-a658-d52a27cc04ff/5b01ece2985b3d83.mp4
That's amazing. I thought for sure it would've broke through the ceiling
Vive la France, vive la Notre Dame de Paris.
To be fair your point stands, if Notre Dame de Reims got repaired, Notre Dame de Paris can. It did take two decades at the time though, Reims only only reopened in 1938.
I'm really glad it was mostly saved. I've always had a thing for religious architecture and I want to be able to see it in my lifetime.
I feel a bit dumb just now realizing that Notre Dame is "Our Lady" and not the name of this specific site. I didn't know there was a Notre Dame in Reims.
God damn tragedy something like this is happening.
that aside, some of the pictures of it burning are gorgeous
For real, that's actually a nice surprise given the situation. I'm wondering how the pipe organ has fared, haven't been able to find any news on that just yet.
https://twitter.com/nicolasberrod/status/1117864433403846663
Some footage of what it looked inside from just a few months ago.
850 years of history right there, on fire. Horrifying.
people are saying your hasn't been damaged
Since people seem to be maybe a bit overly attached to the spire, reminder that it didn't date back to the Middle-Ages like the towers. It was part of the 19th century renovations carried out by Viollet-le-Duc to restore the decaying cathedral that had been severely damaged and left unattended since the French revolution in the 1790's.
That's why it collapsed. They just don't build things like they used to.
I block facebook.com embeds on this site so here:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/441/bbe18f1a-5078-46bc-aaa7-d1a954919e83/image.png
Any official news yet on the state of the pipe organ?
Such great news to come home to. From the drone footage it really looked like the interior of the cathedral was being ravaged.
I think this might be one of the worst losses of a European historical landmark since WW2.
From what I can tell from the pictures, haven't been there myself, the building had an interior domed stone roof and an exterior wooden roof. So what we saw on fire all this time was mostly just the wooden roof and spire, would that be correct?
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