  Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 263 Registered: 06-2006 |
Does anyone know what the name of the church that is on the corner of Fischer and Chapin? It's pretty beat up. I drove that way trying to get around stalled Gratiot traffic. I went by there again and couldn't see any signs. | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 265 Registered: 06-2006 |
I still couldn't figure out what that church name is/was. Bump? | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1502 Registered: 12-2004 |
I know the one you are talking about, but I don't have the slightest what its name is. That church is tore up big time. | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 266 Registered: 06-2006 |
Thanks 1953, It looks like it was a real beauty in its former years. I might venture out of my steel cage one of these days and take a closer look at it. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6479 Registered: 10-2003 |
 Google Street View is pretty cool... | ||
Mccarch Member Username: Mccarch Post Number: 142 Registered: 12-2003 |
St. Thomas Missouri Synod Lutheran (formerly) | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 267 Registered: 06-2006 |
AIW, Thanks for the picture. Mccarch, Thanks for the info. Does anybody know when it was closed? | ||
Lafontaine Member Username: Lafontaine Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2006 |
Hi I am a long time lurker. I had to write about this church, though. Here is a link to the St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Eastpointe: http://www.stl-eastpointe.org/ history.html St. Thomas sold the church in 1968. I don't know who the new owner was or when the church was abandoned. I was a member of St. Thomas for many years and attended school there in East Detroit. When I was 5 (I'm 51 now), I remember singing in the kindergarten choir at the Christmas program at the Fischer church. Our song was "Away in the Manger" I still remember the bright spot light shining down on us from the balcony. Drove by the church recently. On the side of the church is a large area where a stained glass window was. It is now just a huge hole. You can see right into the church from your car. The google street view shows this view if you look south on Fischer. | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 268 Registered: 06-2006 |
Thanks Lafontaine and welcome. Lots of interesting stuff and smart people on this forum. I never realized that the church in Eastpointe had started someplace else. | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 349 Registered: 06-2007 |
Someone mentioned an abandoned church to me today and it turns out to be a different one. Its at the Corner of Gratiot and Grand. Anyone have any info on that one? |
