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The diocese also plans to rearrange altars and other items to free up space for people to move around, per the Times. Visitors will now be able to enter the cathedral through its grand central doors rather than the side entrance as previously directed. Major changes include the addition of softer mood lighting, hung at head-level, and new light projections, which will shine short Bible quotes in multiple languages onto the cathedral’s walls, per the New York Times. “It has a history that we must respect, that today’s people cannot erase with a stroke of the pen." “The church is 2,000 years old - it is an old lady,” says Didier Rykner, the editor in chief of art magazine La Tribune de l’Art, reports Constant Méheut for the New York Times. Critics, however, say that the renovations will reduce the standing of the historical building into a theme park. Advocates argue that the approved plan will make Notre-Dame “even more beautiful and welcoming” for the millions of people who visit the site each year, according to a diocese press release. Put forth by the diocese of Paris, the proposal calls for the modernization of the cathedral’s interior as it rebuilds from a devastating fire, which destroyed much of its roof in April 2019. Photo by Bertrand Guay / AFP / Getty Imagesįrance’s National Heritage and Architecture Commission approved a plan to renovate the interior of the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral on Thursday of last week, reports the Agence France-Presse (AFP). An aerial view of the ongoing efforts to reconstruct Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, pictured in June 2021.