“Abandonment has plagued even Detroit’s finest neighborhoods and structures, and this shuttered church is no exception. This church, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, was a casualty of the recent foreclosure crisis, which has seen the surrounding neighborhood almost entirely vacated. There were, simply, no more people left to fill the seats..”

By g. s. george, via
Slate’s “Shoot the Recession Project”.

“Abandonment has plagued even Detroit’s finest neighborhoods and structures, and this shuttered church is no exception. This church, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, was a casualty of the recent foreclosure crisis, which has seen the surrounding neighborhood almost entirely vacated. There were, simply, no more people left to fill the seats..”

By g. s. george, via Slate’s “Shoot the Recession Project”.