Our Lady of the Assumption Church — Attraction in Ontario

A pleasure exploring this historical church after dark 😍 It was originally established as "The Mission of Our Lady of the Assumption among the Hurons in Detroit" in 1728 by the Jesuit missionary Fr. Armand De La Richardie, S.J. In 1765, a 60 by 30 feet (18 m × 9 m) church was erected for the Hurons and some sixty French settler families. Assumption became an official, canonical institution in 1767 under its first pastor, Fr. Pierre Potier S.J. who remained at his post until his death in 1781.

That year, the bishop of Quebec sent his Vicar-General, Fr. Francois-Xavier Hubert to be pastor of Assumption parish. Fr. Hubert initiated plans to build a rectory and a school. A shortage of land for this project was rectified by a donation of land from the Hurons on March 6, 1782. The rectory was built in 1785 and in 1786 as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, Fr. Hubert, who had since relocated for his new post, contributed to the building of a new church and sent two women from Quebec to...

The main church is closed pending renovations, and is now served out of the the old Holy Name of Mary Church building just south of Wyandotte W. at McEwan. But the Rosary Chapel adjacent to Assumption Church remains open for daily mass, confessions, Eucharist adoration, intimate celebrations, and quiet reflection and prayer. It remains connected to the Basilian fathers, who have served the Windsor area as pastors and educators for over one hundred and fifty years. The Rosary Chapel also now serves the University of Windsor campus at the same general location. It is a great, historic Roman Catholic parish, the oldest in Canada West of Montreal. Note Ste Anne's Church across the Detroit River in Detroit, which was founded as a parish by...

this place is great. back in the day, they had novus ordo masses and a tridentine mass. that was when I went there. the tridentine there was great. i forget when they had confession.

parking is next to the church. the church is next to a nice riverside park if i remember.

i don t even know what I was doing, submitting a review of a church. reviews are a hassle even for busineses. especially small businesses. they should probably remove this review thing from google maps, a lot of people probably don t understand what all is going on, especially the young...