Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, decided to build a new cathedral for the expanding population, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Although construction started in 1163, it was not completed until roughly 180 years later in about 1345. Built i...
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Builder of Notre Dame Notre Dame de Paris was built atop the sacred groves of the Celts, who held their services on the island on the Seine, by the Romans. A basilica dedicated to St. Etienne was constructed there around 528 by Childebert. ...
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The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris ... A Christian basilica was built in the 6th century and the last religious structure before the Notre-Dame construction started was a Romanesque church.
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"Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris...was seminal in the evolution of the French Gothic style. It is 110 ft high—the first cathedral built on a truly monumental scale. With its compact, cruciform plan, its sexpartite vaulting, flying buttresses and vastly enlarged windows, it became a prototype for future French cathedrals."
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Notre- Dame Paris - Built on a site sacred since Roman times (a temple of Jupiter was once built on the Ile de la Cité), Notre-Dame Cathedral is a masterpiece of gothic architecture in France. The first stone was lain by the bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully, in 1163 ... This bell is Notre-Dame's oldest: it is said that when...
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My pictures of Notre-Dame Cathedral are very popular, so I’ve prepared a FAQ to answer common questions about the structure. If you have a question that isn’t answered here, send me feedback and I’ll try to research an answer to post here (no guarantees). ... When was Notre-Dame built?
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The Gothic loftiness of Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cite as well as the history of Paris. On the spot where this majestic cathedral now stands, the Romans had built a temple... ... NOTRE-DAME de PARIS ... On the spot where this majestic cathedral now stands, the Romans had built a temple to Jupiter,
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Notre Dame de Paris, more than seven hundred years old, is only the most recent of holy houses to occupy this ancient sacred ground. The Celts held their services on this island in the seine, and atop their sacred groves the Romans built their own temple to Jupiter.
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Notre Dame was built on top of the foundations of a Christian basilica which in turn was built on a Roman temple starting in 1163 ACE. It took nearly 200 years for the church to be declared finished, but by 1345 ACE the church could be said to be done.
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