Sacred Heart Chaldean Church

{{Short description|Church in Detroit, Michigan, United States}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|date=June 2024}} {{Primary sources|date=June 2024}} {{Unreliable sources|date=June 2024}} }} thumb|Sacred Heart Chaldean Catholic Church The '''Sacred Heart Chaldean Church''' ({{langx|arc|ܥܕܬܐ ܕܠܒܗ ܕܡܪܢ ܕܟܠܕܝ̈ܐ|translit=ʿēttāʾ d-lebbēh d-māran d-ḵaldāyēʾ}}) was a Chaldean Catholic church located in Chaldean Town, a neighborhood in Detroit on 7 Mile Road. It was built in 1975 using Assyrian Revival architecture.<ref>detroit1701.org/Chaldean.html{{failed verification|date=June 2024}}</ref> In 1979, Iraqi former president Saddam Hussein donated $250,000 to the church and was given the key to Detroit. The church’s pastor, Jacob Yasso, calls the former Iraqi president “a very generous, warm man who just let too much power go to his head". The church was closed in 2015, as the local Assyrian population was very thinned out, and so it moved to a new facility in Warren, Michigan as "Our Lady Of Perpetual Help".<ref>{{cite web|author=Namou, Weam|url=http://www.chaldeannews.com/a-new-home-for-sacred-heart/|title=A New Home for Sacred Heart|publisher=Chaldean News|date=2015-07-02|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719131532/http://www.chaldeannews.com/a-new-home-for-sacred-heart/|archivedate=2015-07-19}}{{primary source inline|date=June 2024}}</ref> The building is being sold, with a "for sale" sign visible from a Google street view from October 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4322373,-83.106045,3a,60y,20.15h,98.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAKA7loBXv6Z1lBiUqsw_yA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656|title = Google Maps}}{{unreliable source inline|date=June 2024}}</ref> The "for sale" sign was removed from Google street view from November 2016 onwards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://maps.app.google/pEe8w9FaX58oNXf38?g_st=ac|title = Google Maps}}</ref>

The old and new churches are part of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit.

==See also== {{Portal|Michigan|Catholicism}} * Chaldean American * History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

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==External links== {{Commons category|Sacred Heart Chaldean Catholic Church (Detroit, Michigan)}} * [http://chaldeanchurch.com/our-lady-of-perpetual-help/ Our Lady of Perpetual Help] {{Religious landmarks in Metro Detroit}} {{coord|42|25|56.9|N|83|06|21.6|W|region:US-MI_type:landmark|display=title}}

Category:Chaldean Catholic church buildings in the United States Category:Eastern Catholic church buildings in Michigan Category:Assyrian-American culture in Michigan Category:Churches in Detroit Category:Wooden churches in Michigan