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Second Baptist Church

 

DETROIT PLACES OF WORSHIP

   
Detroit, MI
   
Second Baptist Church
The mother Black Baptist church in Michigan was founded in 1836 and simultaneously became Detroit’s first Black church and was the region’s primary Underground Railroad Station; 5,000 ancestors escaped slavery through here to freedom in Windsor, Ontario just across the Detroit River; tour the basement which served as the UGRR station; for better understanding of the station’s national importance; tours by appt only

Sun worship 10:30a

441-461 Monroe Ave

313-961-0920

Historic First Congregational Church
The first Saturday of each month this church hosts tours of the Underground Railroad; the tour is a compilation of experiences from plantation slave to freedom in Canada tours

33 East Forest at Woodward
Ave

313-831-4080

Masjid Al-Fatha
An orthodox Muslim temple; 5 daily prayers; call for info

2844 North 4th Street near West Ledyard

313-961-0940

Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church
In 1911 Father Joseph Wuest established a mission in St Mary’s school specifically for African Americans near the Greektown district; as the congregation grew in 1914 Father Wuest bought a empty church at this current location; it has flourished as the mother church of African American Catholicism in the metro area

1000 Eliot Street at Rivard

313-831-1356

Bethel AME Church
This mother AME Church in Michigan was founded 1841; also a station on the Underground Railroad; the church is also notable for establishing the oldest African American credit union in Detroit, a non-profit housing corporation which has built 3 apt complexes, and for organizing the Booker T Washington Business Association; Stork’s Nest #1 was founded here by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority; Berry Gordy and his extended family were included among the 2,000 congregates; lastly, the church was a major non-corporate fund raiser for the Museum of African American History

5050 Richard Allen Blvd at East Warren

313-831-8810

First Tabernacle of Detroit COGIC
Founded 1918 by WG Shipman, it is probably the oldest Church of God in Christ in greater Detroit; Sunday worship 11a & 7p; Power of the Word Outreach Ministries is the name of their TV and Radio programs

10501 Puritan Street near S-10 Lodge Freeway

313-342-7729

Muhammad Mosque #1
The Nation of Islam mosque in Detroit

Sunday worship 10a

313-931-4873

14880 Wyoming Street

Masjid Wali Muhammad
Founded by Wallace D. Muhammad’s Islamic organization only two doors away from the Nation of Islam founding site

11529 Linwood Street

313-868-2131

Shrine of the Black Madonna
This stoic, brown brick church has sister Pan African Orthodox Christian churches in Houston and Atlanta; noted for celebrating Mary, Joseph and Jesus as people of color; a healthy display of red, black and green colors in the sanctuary; congregation size is 5,000

Sun worship 11:15a

7625 Linwood, 3 blocks north of Grand Blvd

313-898-0360

Ebenezer AME Church
Founded in 1871 and formerly located on Brush & Willis Streets, the current edifice fronts the Richard Allen Memorial Park; congregation size is 1,200; many ministries for prisoners, homeless, family life, substance abuse, and radio

5151 West Chicago near Grand River

313-933-6943

New Light Baptist Church
Peering through the other side of Richard Allen Memorial Park one sees the neo-classical Greek colonnade front of the church; a fast growing congregation

Sun worship 7:30a and 10:30a

5240 West Chicago near Grand River

313-931-1111

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