Notre Dame Cathedral

“The sound of the eight bells in Notre Dame’s northern belfry came a month before the cathedral is to reopen following five years of painstaking restoration work in the wake of the blaze.” - France 24

“…construction workers have toiled tirelessly to save the 13th-century relic by President Emmanuel Macron’s promised five-year timeline…. But as the coronavirus began to ravage the city, repair work on Notre Dame was stopped after already being delayed for months by contamination due to lead that melted from the roof.” - Fox

“Notre Dame Cathedral’s rector says the faithful might need to get used to not attending services for a long time — or ever again — after it was unable to host traditional Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution.” - Fox