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I visited NYC in 2015 and went to St. John the Divine Cathedral. Beautiful. Restoration from the fire still goes on and stone masons are outside cutting stone to finish the Cathedral. Italian master cutters are training young NY'ers in the art of making statues etc. How long will it take to restore Notre Dame? Five years seems a short time as Macron promised to rebuild but, never underestimate the French people who built it in the first place.
The reopening of the cathedrals entire 601-foot-long interior, and the repair of its 8,500-pipe Great Organ, followed more than five years of cleaning and restoration. The seat of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, the Gothic Revival cathedral remains unfinished 116 years after its foundation stone was laid in 1892 in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan.
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/repaired-after-fire-cathedral-reopens/
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)They've been working on that thing forever. And then there's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, construction of which began in 1892 and is ongoing. These projects take awhile.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)edhopper
(33,606 posts)give them the billion Notre Dame will get and they will complete it in 5 years too.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)It will allow them to get commitments of time and person-power from the various professions and trades that they are going to need along the way. Otherwise, the work gets done piecemeal, as donations etc. are received.
I imagine that the upfront assessment of the structure is going to take some time. Then they have to determine what they want to do, after they figure out the 'fun' part i.e. who exactly will be making those decisions.