[Magdalen] Detroit Again.

[Scott Knitter]

It's also interesting to google listings of Detroit churches for sale. I
wonder if a parish in tony West Bloomfield was able to sell its property or
simply lost it...they had a disastrous investment loss.
On Apr 20, 2015 12:15 PM, "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> The article on rehabilitation of abandoned homes near Downtown Detroit  MI
> in the current issue of the USA monthly National Geographic Magazine,
> reminded me to surf through some existing lists of abandoned and  recycled
> Detroit churches.
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> The list is long and somewhat appalling because there are so very  many
> treasures - Detroit being a relatively wealthy city for so many decades  -
> and the buildings are often extraordinarily lovely.  Most have  been
> recycled into Baptist churches (probably heavily African-American).
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> I suspect, have such congregations worshipped in such sumptuous
> architecture.  The new names dubbed over the more prosaic  classical
> Protestant and Roman Catholic names are often quite amusing.   Thank
> God they are still used for worship.
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> Of course the same sort of glut of redundant church buildings, some  of
> which are the most magnificent in the region, goes on here locally.
> The most beautiful Protestant church in Wilkes-Barre, built in an  Anglican
> style with stone and exquisite stained glass (The First Baptist  Church,
> associated with the Northern high church Baptists) is now occupied
> by an evangelical group that ignores the spacious sanctuary and has
> a large projection screen in front.  The most gorgeous RCC is
> "Sacred Heart Slovak" with a 200 foot copper clad spire and the whole
> complex is scheduled for demolition.
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> So many of the local and the Detroit churches would be a treasure
> almost anywhere else.  If only we could transport them intact!
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> Sic transit gloria mundi.
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> David Strang.
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