Under the proposed changes, confessional boxes, altars and classical sculptures will be replaced with modern murals, and sound and light effects to create “emotional spaces”.

Critics are aghast at plans for 'Christianity for dumbies' trail, Mandarin on walls and an eco-chapel

There will be themed chapels on a "discovery trail", with an emphasis on Africa and Asia, and quotes from the Bible will be projected onto chapel walls in various languages.

The final chapel on the trail will have a strong environmental emphasis

It’s as if Disney were entering Notre-Dame," said Maurice Culot, a prize-winning Paris-based architect, urbanist, theorist and critic who has seen the plans.

What they are proposing to do to Notre-Dame would never be done to Westminster Abbey or Saint Peter’s in Rome"

A senior source close to the renovation said the plans risked turning the global beacon of Christianity into an “experimental showroom”.

“Can you imagine the administration of the Holy See allowing something like this in the Sistine Chapel?... It would be unimaginable"

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