Saint Raphael Catholic Church in New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
The parish closed for a while due to the damage but re-emerged as the church building for a new parish of consolidated parishes.
The new parish name is Transfiguration.
I visited St. Raphael in the very early 1980’s shortly after my ordination as I had a seminary classmate who was assigned there.
This is what it looked like then:
After Katrina and the closing of parishes into one merged parish that used the once flooded St. Raphael Church but renamed Transfiguration, this is how it was renovated:
