Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris France
Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris France (c. 2010): Notre-Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris), is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and it is among the largest and best-known church buildings in the Catholic Church in France, and in the world. The cathedral treasury contains a reliquary, which houses some of Catholicism’s most important 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 in the radical phase of the French Revolution when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. An extensive restorations were underaken in 1845 and 1991. The Cathedral is located on the Île de la Cité, one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris.