I Pass This Abandoned Detroit Church Every Day...It’s Getting Worse

The organization that would become the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant was founded in 1863 and moved several times, including a stop in Eastern Market, before completing this church at Preston and East Grand Boulevard in 1908. As Detroit’s population boomed in the early 20th century, the church expanded to accommodate more than 1,300 parishioners and hundreds of Sunday school students. The church was part of a pilot racial integration program starting in 1959, which offered supplemental funding to churches that lost white parishioners who left because of integration. After decades of community use, the congregation merged with another church in 1981, and the original building was vacated. Trinity Deliverance Church later occupied the structure and maintained it for years. Since the pandemic, the historic complex has fallen into disrepair and now sits on the market awaiting its next chapter, bolstered by new housing next door. SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: T-Shirts: https://thisbuildingmatters-shop.four... Donate: https://www.eherg.com/donate Print Shop: https://www.eherg.com/shop Use my Historically Significant Interactive Map: https://www.eherg.com/map Check out recently added locations: https://www.eherg.com/locations