![]() Home to many world-renowned relics including the crown of thorns believed to be worn by Jesus Christ during His crucifixion, the tunic of Saint Louis, famous church artwork such as "The Visitation", and much more.Some of the cathedral's architectural feats include the flying buttresses, an 8,000-pipe organ, stained glass Rose Windows, and of course home to the grotesques and gargoyles of Notre Dame Paris.Added the flying buttresses in the 14th century for structural support necessary to house more than 6,000 worshipers inside. ![]() Construction began in 1163 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and lasted 182 years, finally reaching completion in 1345.Sits on a natural island in the middle of the Seine river.A world-famous marvel of medieval Gothic architecture.One of the most famous landmarks in Paris, drawing around 13 million visitors per year.The south transept contains a rose window, while the West Window contains a heart-shaped design colloquially known as The Heart of Yorkshire.Credit: Pexels/Adrienn Notre Dame Cathedral Facts And History In the north transept is the Five Sisters Window, each lancet being over 53 feet (16.3 m) high. The nave contains the West Window, constructed in 1338, and over the Lady Chapel in the east end is the Great East Window (finished in 1408), the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world. The minster, devoted to Saint Peter, has a very wide Decorated Gothic nave and chapter house, a Perpendicular Gothic quire and east end and Early English North and South transepts. ![]() The title “minster” is attributed to churches established in the Anglo-Saxon period as missionary teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title. Services in the minster are sometimes regarded as on the High Church or Anglo-Catholic end of the Anglican continuum. It is run by a dean and chapter, under the Dean of York. The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the third-highest office of the Church of England(after the monarch as Supreme Governor and the Archbishop of Canterbury), and is the mother church for the Diocese of York and the Province of York. The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. ![]()
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