I was reading a book called Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in America Family which I highly recommend if you want some insight into the religious right. The book mentioned J. Frank Norris an influential Baptist preacher from Forth Worth in 20, 30's and 40's. In 1935, he added preaching at Temple Baptist, what is now King Solomon Baptist, in Detroit. Now Norris was a nasty bigot, who praised the KKK, said "Catholics would behead every Protestant preacher and disembowel every mother Protest mother"etc.

My question is what happen to this church after the move to W. Chicago and does anyone have more stories/history of the church while it was in Detroit?

Temple Baptist Church from 1934 to 1951. Temple was a conservative, pro-segregationist church that barred African Americans from attending, and boasted a congregation of 5,000.
Temple relocated to a large facility on Grand River Avenue where there was a sizable white population. But after the neighborhood became more mixed demographically, Temple once again relocated to West Chicago Avenue near Telegraph Road.

http://www.abandonedonline.net/2012/...aptist-church/


W Chicago location:
http://www.cardcow.com/64647/temple-...roit-michigan/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Frank_Norris