The social history and the present day struggles at Detroit's St. Albertus Church combine to create one of the city's most compelling stories.
Detroitblogger John writes about this Poletown institution in this week's Metro Times.
Excerpt:
Step inside St. Albertus and it's easy to see why the church generates such devotion from its caretakers.
The outside is relatively plain, but the interior is astonishing. Color and texture and detail shine out from every direction. It's psychedelic, bizarre, otherworldly; like some mystical experience expressed in architecture. A plaster St. Albertus looks down from above the main altar, surrounded by angels of various hierarchies floating alongside him, standing on platforms, leaning out from walls. There are flowers and candles everywhere, and little flames cast flickering shadows onto the kaleidoscope walls.
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