The shrine had not been restored for more than 200 years and there were fears that it posed a dangerous safety risk to pilgrims.
“If this intervention hadn’t happened now, there is a very great risk that there could have been a collapse,” Bonnie Burnham of the World Monuments Fund said.
“This is a complete transformation of the monument.”
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