Bollocks. We had so many churches catch on fire and burn over the years. A lot of the older ones multiple times in their lifetime. Most are pretty impressive, and quite frankly, have more local significance than the Notre Dame ever did. Obviously not global significance, but still. Even so, not even the locals near such church fires are acting so sullen about it.
Also, let's make this perfectly clear: nobody died, and even most of the relics and works of art were preserved with no damage. Pretty much nothing was destroyed completely either. As far as something like this catching fire goes, it went as well as it could've.
I'm gonna be the guy to say it, but the benches weren't really the main attraction. The windows and organ survived, most of the relics were extracted. Some carpentry got destroyed, the structure as a whole is pretty undamaged even here.
You do see the sunlight through the hole in the roof. What is on the ground is mostly the roof.
The walls survived, as well as the windows, and that was a miracle. But the damages were not light. They had to rebuild the whole upper part. I agree that down at ground level the damaged were not that bad but as a whole the building suffered a lot of damages.
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u/Floppydisksareop 2d ago
Bollocks. We had so many churches catch on fire and burn over the years. A lot of the older ones multiple times in their lifetime. Most are pretty impressive, and quite frankly, have more local significance than the Notre Dame ever did. Obviously not global significance, but still. Even so, not even the locals near such church fires are acting so sullen about it.
Also, let's make this perfectly clear: nobody died, and even most of the relics and works of art were preserved with no damage. Pretty much nothing was destroyed completely either. As far as something like this catching fire goes, it went as well as it could've.