Other cathedrals that burned around the world

Notre Dame is not the first cathedral to catch fire. Review of the most important fires in churches since 1991, summarized by the agency Efe.

September 5, 1991

The Cathedral of San Fracisco Javier, in the Japanese city of Yamaguchi, is destroyed and its two steeples partially neutralized by a fire that spreads at night in the enclosure.

The cathedral, built in 1952 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the founder of the Jesuits in Japan, was a major tourist attraction of this prefecture because of its famous descriptions engraved on the windows of the life of the Spanish missionary, who introduced the Christianity in Japan

September 6, 1993

A fire significantly damages the dome of Esztergom Cathedral, north of Budapest, and endangers its precious wall paintings. The Basilica of Esztergom, built in the 11th and 12th centuries and rebuilt several times, was completed in its present form in 1856.

October 17, 1994

A fire destroyed the Chapel of the Virgen de los Desamparados of Teruel Cathedral, to which is attached one of the Mudejar towers declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site dating back to the 13th century. The canon of the cathedral indicated a wax lamp lit as a cause of fire.

October 26, 1994

The dome of Berlin's German Cathedral, a building that was in the period of restoration, burns as a result of a random fire, apparently caused by the spark of a welding device of the l 39; one of the workers who worked there.

The German Cathedral is one of the buildings of the historic center of Berlin virtually destroyed in 1943 as a result of the bombing of the Allies during World War II.

April 12, 1997

A fire completely destroyed the chapel of the cathedral of Turin, built in the seventeenth century, part of the royal palace of the Piedmontese capital, connected to the religious building by a corridor. The Shroud, which is preserved and preserved in the temple, was saved from fire.

July 5, 2001

The fire declared in one of the archives rooms of the Cathedral Chapter of Cordoba, located in the Mezquita-Catedral, affects twenty-five of the 5,000 documents stored in this unit and corresponds, for the most part, to account books. mbades.

December 18, 2001

St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York is badly damaged by the fire that broke out after four hours. The fire destroyed the church's souvenir shop, while the central nave, to which the flames had not come, was damaged by water and smoke.

August 25, 2006

A fire causes enormous damage in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in St. Petersburg, the former imperial capital and nowadays Russia's second largest city. The cathedral, built in the first third of the 19th century and an architectural monument protected by the state, was being restored.

October 29, 2014

A fire seriously damaged the Catholic Cathedral of Sosnowiec in Polish Silesia, a neo-Gothic temple built in 1899 that was partially destroyed by a fire of unknown origin.

May 2, 2016

A fire in a Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Manhattan has destroyed a large part of the building, including since 1968 on the list of protected heritage of New York. The building was built in 1855 as an Episcopal Church and is an Orthodox Cathedral since the 1940s.

January 26, 2017

The Cathedral of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, located about 240 km north of Buenos Aires, is undergoing a fire that has "partially" destroyed the building dating back to 1800.