Sacred Heart Parish

Sacred Heart Parish is a Michigan historical marker in Detroit, Wayne County, dedicated 1978.

Wayne County · dedicated 1978 · 1000 Eliot Street, Detroit

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Erected in 1875, this building was originally a German Catholic church. As the social and ethnic composition of the neighborhood changed, so did the membership of the church. Many of the founding German parishioners moved away. Finally in 1938 the first black Catholic congregation in the city of Detroit moved to this edifice. That pioneer congregation, which had begun in 1911 as the St. Peter Claver Church on Eliot and Beaubien Streets, still worships here. Affiliated with Sacred Heart Parish are a Sunday school, a choir, several church auxiliary organizations, and numerous social, educational, and cultural functions which serve the people of this community. The church operated a high school until 1957 and an elementary school until 1965. This parish has served Detroit for over one hundred years.

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