“All slots are exhausted”: it took only a few hours this Tuesday for the places allowing access to Notre-Dame de Paris for the religious celebrations of the reopening week to be reserved.
An online reservation system was launched this 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 during the week of December 8 to 15. 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 (December 8-15) have been reserved”indicates 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 it is dedicated to all those who worked for 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.
Waiting
Without reservation access ist “always possible, but with a risk of longer queues, especially during busy periods”adds the site.
From Monday 9 to Friday 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 14 and Sunday 15 December. It will return to its usual hours from Monday December 16 (7:45 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on weekdays and 8:15 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekends).
Groups of pilgrims will be able to access the cathedral from February. For groups of visitors, access will be possible from June 9, 2025, with prior reservation from March.
The diocese of Paris expects 14 to 15 million visitors each year after the reopening, marked on December 7 by an inauguration in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, American President-elect Donald Trump and several dozen heads of state and government. .
