Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris won’t maintain a Christmas Mass for the primary time in additional than 200 years, as restore work continues following April’s hearth.
Midnight Mass will nonetheless be celebrated on Christmas Eve, officers mentioned, however it’s going to happen on the close by church of Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois.
The 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage web site, misplaced its spire and roof through the blaze.
President Emmanuel Macron has set a five-year purpose for its reconstruction.
In October, the French tradition ministry mentioned almost €1bn (£850m; $1.1bn) had been raised or pledged for the work.
The long-lasting constructing has celebrated Christmas Mass via two centuries of usually turbulent historical past, solely closing through the French revolution when anti-Catholic forces turned it briefly into “a temple of cause”.
(Supply: BBC Information)