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Notre Dame d'Afrique holds a daily mass at 18:00, with the Friday mass taking place at 10.30 instead. Mass also takes place in different languages throughout the month.
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in 2003, but work on the project did not start until the spring of 2007. The total cost of restoration was 5.1 million
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