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For the Victor Hugo novel, see The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
For other uses, see Notre Dame and Notre Dame de Paris (disambiguation).
Notre Dame de Paris
View of southern facade from the Seine
48.8530°N 2.3498°ECoordinates: 48.8530°N 2.3498°E
Location
6 Parvis Notre-Dame – place Jean-Paul-II, 75004 Paris
Country
France
Denomination
Roman Catholic
Website
www.notredamedeparis.fr
Architecture
Status
Cathedral
Functional status
Active
Heritage designation
Monument historique
Style
French Gothic
Groundbreaking
1163
Completed
1345
Specifications
Length
128 metres (420 ft)
Width
48 metres (157 ft)
Number of towers
2
Tower height
69 metres (226 ft)
Number of spires
1
Spire height
90 metres (300 ft)
Bells
10
Administration
Archdiocese
Paris
Clergy
Archbishop
André Vingt-Trois
Dean
Patrick Chauvet
Priest in charge
Patrick Jacquin (rector)
Laity
Director of music
Sylvain Dieudonné[1]
Monument historique
Official name: Cathédrale Notre-Dame
Type
Église
Designated
1862[2]
Reference no.
PA00086250
Notre-Dame de Paris (IPA: [nɔtʁə dam də paʁi](French About this sound (help·info)) ; French for "Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.[3] The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and it is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.
As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame is the parish that contains the cathedra, or official chair, of the Archbishop of Paris, currently Cardinal André Vingt-Trois.[4] The cathedral treasury is notable for its reliquary which houses some of Catholicism's most important first-class relics including the purported Crown of Thorns, a fragment of the True Cross, and one of the Holy Nails.
In the 1790s, Notre-Dame suffered desecration during the radical phase of the French Revolution when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. An extensive restoration supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc began in 1845. A project of further restoration and maintenance began in 1991