Photos: Saying goodbye to fire-ravaged First Unitarian Church in Detroit

The mood was somber as preservationists and parishioners sang a hymn, prayed, listened to somber horns and clutched candles.
The mood was somber as preservationists and parishioners sang a hymn, prayed, listened to somber horns and clutched candles.
Suspicion fell almost immediately on the church’s owner, Salim Kemenko, a property speculator who has wanted to demolish the building but was prohibited from doing so.