Old Mariners Church, Detroit, MI, July 4, 2014 :Star Spangled Banner
Old Mariners' Church
Detroit, MI
170 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI 48226
Phone:(313) 259-2206
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Church bells play Star Spangled Banner on July 4, 2014
Old Mariners Church, also known as Mariners' Church of Detroit and Free and Independent Church.
Founded in 1842 as a special mission to the maritime travelers of the Great Lakes by Julia Ann Anderson. With the opening of the Erie Canal, the invention of steam-powered boats, and the growth of Detroit, Julia and her sister Charlotte observed increasing numbers of seamen in the city. She felt these sailors were too often marginalized and treated as outsiders - relegated to the back of society, and literally, to the backs of churches. As a result, she willed her lot Woodward Avenue and Woodbridge Street to the site for the Mariners' Church. She also specified that it be a stone church (built for the ages), with forever free pews so that mariners would not have to be relegated to the back.
The church was thus constructed on the site of Julia Anderson's mansion and its exact size was dictated by the lot on which her mansion stood. Prior to the Civil War, the church was a stop on the Underground Railroad which black slaves followed North to Canada and freedom. Runaway slaves would go through that tunnel and, under the cover of night, were picked up by rowboats, which took them to Canada — and to safety, Rev. Richard W. Ingalls Jr says.
In 1925, the church established Mariners' Inn, a shelter that now offers rehabilitation, counseling and vocational services for homeless substance abusers.
After World War II, the construction of Detroit Civic Center required moving the 3,000 ton church to a new site about 900 feet east to where it is now by the entrance to the Windsor, Canada Tunnel, an event spectacular enough to make it into the pages of Life magazine (April 25, 1955). The Mariners' Church building is constructed of Lannon stone from Wisconsin, in the perpendicular gothic style of Gothic Revival architecture. It replaced an earlier wood structure on the same site. The new site for the church on Jefferson Avenue was where the Indian Council House was constructed after the 1805 fire. The house was used for meetings with local tribes and the first Protestant worship services in Detroit
In 1971, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The church's bell tolled 29 times in November 1975 to mourn the loss of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald; once for each of her 29 crew members. The church continued to hold an annual memorial, reading the names of the crewmen and ringing the church bell until 2006. The church is referenced in Gordon Lightfoot's song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with the lyrics In a musty old hall in Detroit, they prayed in the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral. The church bell chimed 'til it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. Lightfoot himself performed the ballad at the tenth memorial service for the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1985.
Functioned as a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan until 1992, when the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled it was incorporated as an independent congregation. An important and unique aspect to Mariners' is that it is the only Michigan Church incorporated by an act of Legislature. The Trustees of Mariners' Church of Detroit were formed under the Act of Incorporation, No. 142 of 1848, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan--and which Act has neither been amended nor repealed. Though it follows the traditional Anglican liturgy, the church is an independent denomination, as cited in its charter.
The 1849 pipe organ was installed by the Garret House Organ Company of Buffalo. This was replaced in 1966 by an organ given by architect Ralph Calder in memory of his wife, Helen. In 2007, D. F. Pilzecker & Company installed an organ with 78 ranks of pipes to replace the 1966 instrument
The stained glass windows were created by the J&R Lamb Studios of New York City in 1955. The rose window on the west facade was a gift of the Browning family, in memory of their mother Bertie Ann Browning. Replicating a ship's compass, the window is an appropriate tribute inasmuch as the Browning family was associated with shipping on the Great Lakes through the Browning Steamship Co. and owned the Bob-Lo Boats and Bob-Lo Island. The windows on the side walls contain scenes from the history of Detroit and the Bible.
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