Notre Dame Cathedral to reopen 5 years after massive fire
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2 ай бұрынFive years after a devastating fire left the spire and roof badly damaged, restorative repairs of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris are nearing completion. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.
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@hotshot104 2 ай бұрын
I remember watching the live footage just floored that another well known monument was being lost. I’m so glad it was able to be refurbished and reconstructed with such care and love
@fearmetoo-le8dw 2 ай бұрын
From the images I've seen reconstruction is extremely well done and authentic. I hope to be able to visit the Norte Dame one day.
@yvonneplant9434 Ай бұрын
It's fantastic!!!!
@yvonneplant9434 Ай бұрын
@@fearmetoo-le8dwI have been inside. It's awe inspiring.
@reezabaca Ай бұрын
The billions of money spent in rebuilding this church for 100 people that go there, is better spent elsewhere.
@Rays_Bad_Decisions Ай бұрын
Muslim extremists have burnt down 100s of churches across Europe but Arson was ruled out while Notre Dame was still on fire....
@mencken8 2 ай бұрын
This is actually the first good news I’ve read today.
@BITTYBOY121 2 ай бұрын
Well done to that carpenter and all the other specialist people who helped to restore that badly damaged cathedral. This is what I call amazing team work and true craftsmanship...
@andyroo9381 2 ай бұрын
Handsome Hank and his skillful hands. Thank you to Hank and all of the craftsman who resurrected Notre Dame.
@kristoffermangila 2 ай бұрын
Hank and his colleagues will have to go to Copenhagen, and help the Danes rebuild the Børgen building and its dragon-tail spire.
@jimmshorts Ай бұрын
All around, be still my heart.
@titanictx883 2 ай бұрын
I visited there by coincidence back in 2018. My friend were on an open top bus when it suddenly started to rain and lightly hail. Everyone crammed down to the bottom - standing room only - water was sloshing everywhere as we drove around Paris. Suddenly, the rain stopped so my friend and I got off at the next stop, which just so happened to be Notre Dame. Then, it started raining again! So, we started running to find cover in Notre Dame. We walked in and the entire place felt warm and aglow. There was a choir quietly singing and people sitting listening to them while others explored the cathedral.
@williamjones7163 4 күн бұрын
I visited Notre Dame in 1985. I was 24. My bucket list is to live long enough to see it again. I am 63 today. God willing, I shall return.
@LJB103 2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, there is now another historic spire that needs to be rebuilt - and for the same terrible reason. Hopefully some of the people can now help Copenhagen.
@Camtoonz 2 ай бұрын
This was a stunning report close to perfection on all counts - audio, videography, script and delivery by Kier. Really hit home seeing the work from this perspective using period tools and techniques - reminiscent of classical musicians playing period instruments while perfoming centuries old music. The parallel was palpable. Spot on great energy reporting.
@maverickmckee9198 2 ай бұрын
The literal fusion of man and machine, hand power and technology, coming together to save history.
@UnaBellissima 2 ай бұрын
It’s BEAUTIFUL once again. Thank you to all who made it happen. 🙏🏼💖✨
@Theonetruegod-hw2ei 2 ай бұрын
Waste of money
@Libertystreet216 2 ай бұрын
@@Theonetruegod-hw2eiNotre Dame is Magnificent. It’s good that they rebuilt it.
@Theonetruegod-hw2ei 2 ай бұрын
@@Libertystreet216 why?
@Libertystreet216 2 ай бұрын
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei So that people could see the beautiful architecture. All that history gone. People can see it again.
@Theonetruegod-hw2ei 2 ай бұрын
@@Libertystreet216 it’s a part of our history that should be in a book.
@libertyvilleguy2903 2 ай бұрын
Fascinating. I’d love to see a separate piece on the crafting of the vintage tools used by the workers. And another one about the search for the thousands of oak trees needed for the restoration. I recall hearing initially that they didn’t believe there were enough mature oaks left in all of France to handle the needs of the restoration. This American craftsman (or any other craftsman for that matter) who was there for five years could author a very interesting story about what the work was like.
@shimesu443 2 ай бұрын
Watching this beautiful old lady burn was physically painful, and I was sick with worry, waiting for the walls to cave in without the roof to hold them up. I am so, so happy that she survived and that she's almost ready to welcome visitors again.
@sophie20140 Ай бұрын
Never would've thought that it's been 5 years 😮
@user-sq4vn9vb6l 2 ай бұрын
It's been 5 years scene the fire in 2019.
@Lizwindsor 2 ай бұрын
Will be there in June, can’t wait!
@JamesK7911 Ай бұрын
I visited there on March 26, 2019 with my US and World history classmates in high school for spring break. I remember my teacher during passing time telling me about it 2 weeks after coming back to the USA. It’s gonna be crazy once we look back and realize this is just part of the long history it has
@joebonello1609 Ай бұрын
The IMPOSSIBLE DREAM - It happened. Congratulations to ALL who took part in recreating this beauty.
@eddieg6436 2 ай бұрын
Finally, a billion dollars spent on something worthwhile!
@eddieg6436 2 ай бұрын
@@swann67000 …about a billion was raised…..happily.
@francoisleyrat8659 2 ай бұрын
Spent in euros. France doesn't use the dollar, US or other.
@Axel-cd1oy 2 ай бұрын
you're Muslim ?
@jessebest5961 Ай бұрын
@@francoisleyrat8659 First It wasn't just Euros raised it was donations from everywhere, Second the US dollar is just what everything is compared to, and thirdly dollars and Euros are very similar in value.
@jimmshorts Ай бұрын
Love you, Hank!
@viewbens 9 күн бұрын
Amazing people!
@hallrecords5122 Ай бұрын
A silva carpenter from New England? I wonder if he's any relation to the family at the heart of This Old House?
@samanthab1923 2 ай бұрын
Christmas 2024 ❤
@jhchooo Ай бұрын
Paris is the greatest city in the world.
@ReiseLukas Ай бұрын
Was, frankly most cities in the Western World are going to crap. Eastern Europe Might have the better cities now
@johngoldsworthy7135 Ай бұрын
Western Europe is in the new dark ages
@wojciechgrodnicki6302 2 ай бұрын
Awesome.
@this_epic_name Ай бұрын
Thank the heavens a restoration, not a reimagining, was chosen.
@yvonneplant9434 Ай бұрын
How about thanking the people doing the work? Engineers. And skilled workers...like carpenters.
@ReiseLukas Ай бұрын
@@yvonneplant9434 Who gave the engineers and carpenters their skills?
@mattx449 Ай бұрын
@@ReiseLukasJesus? 😂
@ReiseLukas Ай бұрын
@@mattx449 God but yeah Jesus is a good answer too
@yenko5196 Ай бұрын
@@ReiseLukas Sure buddy…
@denniswhite9721 2 ай бұрын
Unbelievable!
@NicholasAnderson2 Ай бұрын
Will it still be free?
@yolandagofigure 20 күн бұрын
Happy birthday.❤
@stargazer4299 2 ай бұрын
Pure Beauty!!! as it should be...🙏❤🙏
@jodieshannon5033 Ай бұрын
Not yet open to the public
@Hibernicus1968 Ай бұрын
Glad to see this coming to completion. I remember just after the fire, there were proposals to "modernize" the cathedral -- I remember seeing one that had a modern glass roof and spire. Thank God they didn't go with that sort of monstrosity. Notre Dame is a medieval building. It should look like a medieval building. I'm glad saner heads prevailed.
@richardholmquist7316 Ай бұрын
Saner money helped (for once). Many donations impinged upon accurate restoration.
@DrKO2453 2 ай бұрын
Who says they don’t build them like they used to. This is amazing!
@frdingsdb16 2 ай бұрын
Thank you people for your generous and dedicated work for this patrimony of humanity. You are the silent heroes of culture. Dios los bendiga siepre.
@SunilPatel-yo9di Ай бұрын
Finally bring back the hunchback too
@underratedbub 2 ай бұрын
Happy to hear Americans are helping the French with this!
@Gizmo-gh7im Ай бұрын
So, no Frollo?
@francoisheron5203 2 ай бұрын
Impossible n'est pas français ....
@jkabhishek16 Ай бұрын
2019 was 5 years ago 😭😭😭?
@tonyburzio4107 2 ай бұрын
The single lesson that has not been learned, during work on an ancient building a nighttime fire watchman is a LOT cheaper than a rebuild. Hear that Copenhagen?
@dufonrafal 2 ай бұрын
There was one as well as multiple smoke detectors that went off. But he wasn’t properly trained and cleared the first alarm as a false alarm. Also it happened during the day.
@Axel-cd1oy 2 ай бұрын
the French authorities were lamentable in their anticipation. On the other hand, they were brilliant in the reconstruction. (A firefighter remembered that there was a giant ladder at Versailles. He called from Notre Dame and the ladder arrived. It undoubtedly saved the cathedral.
@Orxenhorf Ай бұрын
0:45 - You really needed to get that pronunciation correct...... The guys name is apparently "Hank Silver". What you said sounded like "Silva" and that name from New England implies a very distinct connection that isn't there.
@dantematt2439 Ай бұрын
Next job: Denmark stock exchange building.
@Keelow Ай бұрын
3:24 bro on the right gets a lil itchy xD
@greenonions2565 2 ай бұрын
✝️
@mrcoz1764 2 ай бұрын
What about cozzie motto ??? Did he survive ???
@martinklanecky7281 2 ай бұрын
!!
@tigransuqiasyan4839 Ай бұрын
✨🙏✨🙏✨🙏
@DougiePlaysSoccer 2 ай бұрын
It would be an honor to work on it as a mason, architect, sculptor etc. A true historic feat that should be memorialized.
@soulchorea 2 ай бұрын
They gotta be lying - that fire happened last year, right?
@francoisleyrat8659 2 ай бұрын
April 2019
@cw5451 2 ай бұрын
It doesn’t feel so long ago, does it?
@NinjaTyler 18 күн бұрын
I know I had to look it felt like it happened a lot more recently, really goes to show how badly the pandemic affected our senses of time.
@Canada-gs3jc 2 ай бұрын
Book a ticket for mass?
@vinaypatil2426 6 күн бұрын
In India, many temples of such scale were destroyed by invaders. One of such is Brihadeeshwara temple in Tamil Nadu. Just imagine all of these wooden things now done in stone thousands of years ago...
@ShoaibKhan-wv8zc Ай бұрын
Qausimodo will be happy
@Dmartin42 2 ай бұрын
So suddenly people are actually concerned with Catholicism instead of ignoring it for the past decades?
@ReiseLukas Ай бұрын
It isn't about the religion, Notre Dame is a national monument in France like the Eiffel Tower. Letting it crumble is like letting France itself be erased from existence
@williamhenry9705 22 күн бұрын
Keep trogs away now!
@GzuzPeezDa5TH 5 күн бұрын
🚬
@jeanpepin5869 2 ай бұрын
Il n'y a pas de religion sans économie, c'est sa fumée. ;)
@agarber1932 Ай бұрын
Keir Simmons sounds like he is on a drug high.
@epache315 2 ай бұрын
Disney Donation 5 million dollars 💸
@millcity9711 2 ай бұрын
Perhaps, but that relatively paltry donation does not exsolve Disney from their many horrific misdeeds.
@piusx8317 2 ай бұрын
Shame not the original though. Never be the same
@jean-yvesmartin6934 2 ай бұрын
It can't be the original if it burned..you know...wood burns...but rebuilt exactly as the original..
@piusx8317 2 ай бұрын
@@jean-yvesmartin6934 That's what I said 🤣🤣
@this_epic_name Ай бұрын
Even the original wasn't the original. The spire came much later.
@Mu51kM4n 2 ай бұрын
Proof that many landmarks are fakes, mere replicas representing the past. It's like the ship of Theseus, at what point does the original structure no longer exist
@JulianKlimczyk 2 ай бұрын
It's a roof dude. Not that deep
@NinjaTyler 18 күн бұрын
What an idiotic take, wood rots, metal rusts, stone chips, all buildings require upkeep, that's just how buildings work.
@jeffdittrich6778 Ай бұрын
Seems stupid to limit technology this way.
@ReiseLukas Ай бұрын
Not when we're talking about a piece of history
@jeffdittrich6778 Ай бұрын
@@ReiseLukas History evolves.
@ReiseLukas Ай бұрын
@@jeffdittrich6778 history is a cycle. Some details may change but the basics never change and are repeated
@abc123fhdi 2 ай бұрын
they used modern cranes to lift it in place, that's not how they did it originally
@stevencramsie9172 Ай бұрын
The cranes are temporary, what is left behind is the only thing that truly needs to be as original as possible
@vincentcerasoli5969 2 ай бұрын
If only the countless Black churches that were burned and bombed out for centuries got the same respect as Notre Dame.
@Bklyn93 Ай бұрын
What does France have to do with that? 🤔
@vincentcerasoli5969 Ай бұрын
@@Bklyn93 There are Black people and black culture all over the world, including France. If you don't know that, that's a problem.
@yenko5196 Ай бұрын
@@vincentcerasoli5969 But “black churches” were not burned and bombed in France…
@vincentcerasoli5969 Ай бұрын
@@yenko5196 Teachable moment: if you don't want people to see your racism, don't put black churches in quotes as if they are not real. That portrays a lack of understanding. There are black people in France and majority black churches all over the world. Regardless of each individual country, systemic racism and anti-blackness is a global problem. If Notre Dame were a historically black church that had burned, the public's reaction would be very different. The public would respond with mostly apathy
@vincentcerasoli5969 Ай бұрын
@@yenko5196 Teachable moment: if you don't want people to see your racism, do not put black churches in quotes as if it's not a real thing.
@thomaspersson688 Ай бұрын
It will never be finished
@davidnesbitt1212 Ай бұрын
Sorry, just another old church. Who cares? The money could have been used to actually help people.
@TimberlakeTigerGirl 8 күн бұрын
Notre Dame is more than just a church. It is a symbol of France's cultural heritage. It's as important to them as the pyramids are to Egypt.
@Theonetruegod-hw2ei 2 ай бұрын
Waste of time and money. They could have dont a lot of good with that money
@delphzouzou4520 2 ай бұрын
They did. Thanks to that, for instance, a new generation of specialized workers were trained, especially in some specific jobs that were almost extinct. Many students in engineer classes decided after their studies to learn either carpentry or stone tailoring thanks to what they saw visiting different working sites.. So just for that, it's not a waste of time or money
@Theonetruegod-hw2ei 2 ай бұрын
@@delphzouzou4520 ya and now they are out of work. Wait, they only used the old generations who knew what they were doing.
@delphzouzou4520 2 ай бұрын
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei Why would they be out of work ?? Source ? There is a lot of work in this trade, all along France and Europe, without speaking about all the experimental archaeology sites. Of course they used the older generations (duh!) to teach the younger. That's how it works for thousands of years. Spontaneous generations don't exist. I don't know what you try to prove. You seem to be a Nobel Price, are you ?
@cw5451 2 ай бұрын
Well, you’re just a ray of sunshine and positivity. Smh
@Bklyn93 Ай бұрын
@@Theonetruegod-hw2eiI think you’d prefer a mosque on the site 😉
@FloridaMan69. 2 ай бұрын
thanks to Trump rebuilding it
@paulbounleuth8901 2 ай бұрын
🏰🏙️🌉🗺️🎆
@user-wy4wp1np9z 2 ай бұрын
A complete disgrace. Instead of giving it to the poor who need it, they rebuilt an obsolete pile of bricks. Jesus would roll over in his grave if he hadn’t transcended this circus called life. 🤡
@stevencramsie9172 Ай бұрын
This was paid for with private donations. Let people spend their money as they wish.
@null493 Ай бұрын
You the crazy
@TimberlakeTigerGirl 8 күн бұрын
Notre Dame is a cultural icon for France's heritage and history.
@budm2528 2 ай бұрын
Waste of money
@JasonTabile 2 ай бұрын
$850 million donated money. Fort them, it's not a waste.
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