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Detroit Area Attraction Guide
Detroit Mariners' Church
Mariners' Church
170 E. Jefferson Ave.
Detroit, MI 48226
The Mariners Church in downtown detroit michigan got it's start on October 28th, 1842 when Julia Ann Anderson died and left in her will $13,200 for the building of a church and requested that the church be free and non-denominational. Afterwhich alot of controversy followed even to recent times, in the will she named 3 executors, attorney Henry Chipman, and brothers (businessmen) Mason Palmer and John Palmer.In January 1849 they began building the church, before the church was finished was the first problem - interpeting the will. At the time it was uncommon for a church to be non-denominational, The issue went to court where John Palmer tried to get the church to follow the will by making the church Non-denominational by not allowing any religion or religious group to lay claim to it, it would be a mariners church, and a free church by saying that the seats and pews would be free of and costs or taxation, the court voted and the issue lost by a two to one margin, the court finally decided that by her religion being
Episcopalian the courts decided to allow the church that denomination. In 1954-55 the church was moved 880 feet make way for construction of the city's Civic Center.In 1991 again the issue as to the denomination went to court again costing a quarter million dollars. Currently the church is Mariners' Church (Free and Independent) is in the mainstream of traditional and classical Christianity -- a biblical, credal, and sacramental church for all people. We worship according to the Use of the Book of Common Prayer of 1662/1928.
The church became even more famous in 1976 as a result of Gorden Lightfoots "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitgerald"
"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald."
Ceremonies are still held in the church once a year for the families and friends of the sailors who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Their website can be found here - marinerschurchofdetroit.org
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