Inside the Abandoned Blaine Street Synagogue, Detroit
This congregation was founded in 1912 as Mishkan Israel, by Russian immigrants. The original building was located in a Detroit slum area, and in 1925, a new synagogue was built on Blaine Street.
By 1958, most of the parish members had moved out of Detroit and into Livonia and Oak Park. The decision was made to again move the parish to a new location – and a new synagogue was constructed on 9 Mile Road in Oak Park.
Detroit Urbex says for four years, the Blaine Street synagogue stood empty, until finally it was taken over by the New Mount Moriah Baptist Church in November 1964.
Inside the Abandoned Blaine Street Synagogue, Detroit
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By Sydney Melson
The Birmingham Times
The Rev. Charles Winston, New Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Hueytown, who has served as pastor there for more than 20 years, said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of peace and nonviolence “shows absolute respect for other human beings and your relationship with Christ.”
Behaving according to God’s word means aligning yourself with King’s lessons of nonviolence, he said: “It means operating from humility and respect for God.”
In the ongoing fight for fairness and equality for people of color, Winston believes King’s tenets go beyond the church.
“We have to try to teach it in the way we live and in the way we communicate with each other,” he said. “Where it once took humility on one side of the fence to break down the hostility on the other side of the fence, [today] it will take humility on both sides.”