reservation slots for first week church services are already sold out

Reservations for individual visits to the cathedral will open on Saturday, for entry on December 9 from 3:30 p.m.

It took only a few hours, Tuesday, December 3, for the places allowing access to Notre-Dame de Paris for the religious celebrations of the reopening week, from December 8 to 15, to be fully reserved. An online reservation system was launched Tuesday morning so that worshipers and visitors can reserve one or more places free of charge at one of the religious services open to the public.

Every day there will be vespers at 5:45 p.m. and a mass at 6:30 p.m. “All slots are sold out”said the Notre-Dame de Paris application around noon. “All available places for the Octave Week celebrations have been reserved”displays the Notre-Dame website.

The diocese of Paris recalls on its website that “as the capacity of the cathedral is strictly limited to 1,500 people, we unfortunately cannot accommodate other participants for these celebrations”. The “octave week” will be a little special, because dedicated to all those who worked on the reconstruction of Notre-Dame.

The Notre-Dame website specifies, however, that reservations for individual visits to the cathedral “will open the day before, i.e. Saturday, December 7”for entry on December 9 from 3:30 p.m.

Without reservation, access is “always possible, but with a risk of longer queues, especially during busy periods”adds the site. From Monday December 9 to Friday December 13, the cathedral will be open from 3:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., then from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday December 14 and Sunday December 15. It will return to its usual hours from Monday December 16 (7:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 8:15 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekends).