St. Patricks restoration goes on above worshipers & vistors

For nearly a year, worshipers and visitors at St. Patricks Cathedral have beheld a mighty power above a moving scaffold of artists and restorers.

Modern-day Michelangelos and their assistants are cleaning and painting the plaster at different levels of the iconic building.

Theyve also been cleaning and restoring the stained-glass windows, pane by pane.

The newly cleaned and restored rose window in St. Patricks Cathedral.Photo: New York Post/Chad Rachman

Anyone who walks in the Fifth Avenue entrance cant help but notice the work, but it hasnt closed the neo-Gothic building that first opened in 1878.

St. Patricks has seven Masses scheduled each weekday, from 7a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and the restorers have managed to work around or rather, on top of the worshipers.

The restorers work from the ground level to the top deck of the scaffold, which is 125 feet up.

Restoration work began in May 2012 and is expected to be completed by December 2015.

The cathedrals biggest restoration since the 1940s has a projected cost of $175 million.

Various restoration stages are being undertaken simultaneously, officials said.

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