The Holy Cross Hungarian Roman Catholic Church is a Catholic church located in the Delray section of Detroit, Michigan, within the Archdiocese of Detroit.
In the decade of 1900 there were plans to establish a Catholic church, but by 1905 the Hungarians had difficulty agreeing on a final site. [1] Later that year the Holy Cross Hungarian Church, [2] a Hungarian Catholic church, opened in Delray. [3] In 1906 the first church building, a frame building, was established. [4] As the number of Hungarians in Delray increased, a new church of the Holy Cross Hungarian Catholic Church opened in 1925. [2] The cornerstone was laid on November 26, 1924. [5]
The construction of Interstate 75 in the mid-1960s destroyed large parts of Delray and divided the community into two pieces. The Hungarian community declined and the Holy Cross parish school closed. [5]
The Holy Cross Hungarian Church was scheduled to observe its 75th anniversary on September 17, 2000. By August of that year, renovations and polishing were underway. [2]
The brick church building has twin towers. [5] Hungarian-born Henri Kohner was the architect and builder of the current church. Detroit Stained Glass Works designed and created the church's five Renaissance-style heavy enamel-painted sanctuary windows. The windows portray Jesus Christ, Saint Peter, Paul the Apostle, and several Hungarian saints. They were installed in 1924. [4] The company von Gerichten Studio of Columbus, Ohio paid $12,000 to have the stained windows made. [5] Ludwig von Gerichten designed and created the church's stained glass windows. Among them is a pot-metal and painted enamel glass window titled "The Assumption of the Virgin." [4] Andras Daubner made several large hand-painted murals that were made between 1948 and 1949. [5]
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