We couldn’t very well wander by St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter without stopping for a closer look. In full, the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France. The structure took its current form in 1850.
Facing toward the altar.

Looking back.
A most handsome interior, with stained glass depicting the life Louis IX, and paintings and statuary, including Joan of Arc. I was especially intrigued by the flags. More than you usually see in a church.

Hanging on the right, as you face the altar, are flags that have flown over New Orleans, and it looks like a completist assemblage: Castile and León, Bourbon France, Bourbon Spain, the Union Jack, the Republic of France, the flag of the United States in 1803, the Republic of West Florida, the state of Louisiana, the state flag of Confederate Louisiana, and the Stars and Bars.

On the left side are a modern U.S. flag, the Vatican flag, and flags of the dioceses of the metropolitan province of New Orleans. That includes the suffragan dioceses of Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Houma-Thibodaux, Lafayette, Lake Charles, and Shreveport, but I couldn’t say which are which.

The altar and above.
I visit a lot of churches these days. If a church building is unlocked, I’ll go in for a look. But that wasn’t a habit I had when I was young. Certainly not much before 1981, when I visited the cathedral for the first time. Wish I could remember the tinge of awe that I must have felt then.

No matter. St. Louis Cathedral impresses even in my church-visiting middle age.