It will be rebuilt, just like Rheims was after WW2. Thankfully, it was one of the most photographed, surveyed, and modelled buildings in the world.
I get that it will be rebuilt and that will be a triumph, however it won't be the same. The original stained glass is going to be lost, as will the Organ which dates back to the mid 1740's. This is a building that has seen the coronation of kings and rulers, marriages of great families. It survived one of the most destructive conflicts in world history.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
I mean, it's kind of obvious that dumping tons of water onto something isn't going to have the effect of a gentile spring shower. It'd put the fire out, but probably blow the building apart.
I get that it will be rebuilt and that will be a triumph, however it won't be the same. The original stained glass is going to be lost, as will the Organ which dates back to the mid 1740's. This is a building that has seen the coronation of kings and rulers, marriages of great families. It survived one of the most destructive conflicts in world history.
I don't think the experience of St Paul's in London or St. Peter's in Rome is considered by anyone to be at all dimished by the fact that they're rebuilt over their respective original churches. If nothing else Notre Dame will have the benefit over them of being rebuilt to match the previous structure as closely as humanly possible
I always wonder why God doesn't protect Churches from Fire and other disasters
Deuteronomy 12:13-14
"Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see, but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
