Posted on 12/29/2020 5:46:47 PM PST by marshmallow
A leak in the French media suggested the rebuilding of the interior of the cathedral is tilting towards a more contemporary style, but the Archdiocese of Paris insists no decision will be made before the end of March.
PARIS, France — Six months after the end of a long and fierce controversy surrounding the terms for the rebuilding of the roof and spire of Notre-Dame, a new national outcry has erupted after part of the rebuilding project for the interior of the monument, severely damaged by the 2019 blaze, was leaked to the press.
Indeed, according to an article by Le Figaro, the committee appointed by Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris a few months ago, comprised of various experts and clergymen, to think about the future interior trim of the cathedral has recently come up with some proposals — discussed at an assembly of Parisian priests — that appear unlikely to attract support from a consensus of the French population.
The most controversial element of the proposals revealed by the French daily newspaper is the possibility to replace architect Viollet-le-Duc’s historic glass-stained windows in the chapels around the nave (which survived the fire) by contemporary and more colorful ones, on which biblical verses would be projected.
The other significant change would concern the furniture, in particular the wooden and straw-bottomed chairs, which would be replaced by benches with light spots. In the same way, projectors would be installed at the base of the cathedral’s pillars to better bring out the nave. This fitting-out, according to Le Figaro, which had access to the synthesis photographs, “gives an impression of an airport runway, or even of a parking lot.”
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Merde.
Don’t change a thing!!
Not the windows!!
Good grief.
More muzzies than Catholics are visiting the building today.
More muzzies than Catholics are visiting the building today.
They’re working on their plans to convert it into a mosque.
Exactly. Why is this even being debated. Just put it back to what it was before.
If “contemporary” means something like the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, dear God, no! That cathedral is the ugliest house of worship ever built in all of history.
Oui. Les imbeciles.
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