Old North Church is both an active congregation and one of the most high-profile tourist destinations in Boston. The craftsmen hope to reveal four of the original angels by April, 2025. Nancy Gonzales ...

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. Charles Krupa / AP ...

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. – AP Photo/Charles Krupa ...

300-year-old angels were painted over at Old North Church. An effort is underway to restore them. Paint conservators are restoring 300-year-old murals of angels that have been hidden since 1912.

Conservators Corrine Long and Gianfranco Pocobene climb down scaffolding after restoring 300-year-old painted angels in Old North Church, Boston. AP Corrine Long touches up one of the angels.

Conservator Corrine Long restores nearly 300-year-old painted angels on walls of Old North Church in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP) Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church ...

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church on Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. On a recent day, the church was mostly empty except ...

Conservators are uncovering 18th-century painted angels hidden under layers of paint at Boston's Old North Church."It's a revelation in terms of the history of the church," Gianfranco Pocobene ...

Conservator Corrine Long, of Dover, N.H., works to restore nearly 300-year-old painted angels on the walls of the Old North Church in Boston.

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. (AP) ...

The painted angels — with round childlike faces and wings — once were among the defining features of the Old North Church when they were painted around 1730.

By MICHAEL CASEY BOSTON (AP) — Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church, murals conservator Gianfranco Pocobene is working to uncover eight angels that were hidden under… ...