BERLIN — Walking into St. Anne Church these days, one might think they were witnessing the rebuilding of Notre Dame in Paris France.
The church is filled with staging and scaffolding and draped plastic amongst the pews reaching to the high ornate ceiling with yellow tape circling some of the pews.
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