Four historic hand-carved angels have finally made their way back to the Old North Church in Boston, landing on their perch over the oldest American-built pipe organ once again.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2-foot tall angels first arrived at Old North Church through privateering, a form of legal piracy. The angels were made in present-day Belgium in the 1620s and were donated to the church by a ...

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.

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 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.

Restored centuries-old angels land in Boston’s Old North Church The church is throwing an angel-themed homecoming celebration for the Baroque statues. Admission is free if your name is Angela.

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.

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… ...