The New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church is located at 13100 M-1 (Michigan highway), Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan, Highland Park, Michigan in Metro Detroit. It was built in 1922 as the Trinity United Methodist Church, in the Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

History

Trinity United Methodist was built by the Cass United Methodist Church of Detroit, as a mission church to serve membership in Highland Park who lived too far to travel the eight miles to Cass United.New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church
from Woodward Ave. The structure served as a Methodist church from its dedication in 1923 until 1978. In the 1950s the church had a mission for Japanese people.Mayer, p
30
"Several Japanese attend the Japanese Mission which meets at the Trinity Methodist Church, 13100 Woodward." After Trinity left the building in 1978, the next year the New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church congregation moved into the building. New Mt. Moriah was established in 1952. As of 2021, the church remained in the building, led by Rev. Eddie Cooper, Jr., Pastor and First Lady Carlethia Cooper.

Architecture

The former Trinity United Methodist Church is a gray limestone, Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival church measuring 125 feet by 110 feet. The main facade has a gabled, two-story entrance pavilion with a recessed entrance located between a plain extension and a crenelated tower with belfry. On the side, there is a shallow, gabled transept with a large window, and a projecting entrance between the church and attached chapel.

References

* Mayer, Albert. ''Ethnic groups in Detroit, 1951''. Wayne State University, Wayne University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1951. * Content re-posted to: Feinstein, Otto. ''Ethnic Communities of Greater Detroit''. Monteith College, Wayne State University, 1970. p
159

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