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St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan)

church building in Detroit, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4426004 ↗
Source-derived summary

St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church was established on May 24, 1942 on Waterman Street in Detroit, MI, US. The current location in Dearborn, MI was dedicated on October 14, 1962; it serves the Armenians in Eastern Michigan, and is one of the Churches of the Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America under jurisdiction of the Holy See of Cilicia. The congregation supports the Armenian Senior Citizen Tower, also called St Sarkis Towers, a 151-unit low income/senior housing facility near the church.

Editorial summary

“St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan)” enters the record as church building in Detroit, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sarkis, Church and Dearborn can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sarkis, Church and Dearborn.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sarkis, Church and Dearborn provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4426004. Authority coordinates are 42.330, -83.227. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942 and 1962.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan) primary sources, St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan) archive and Sarkis research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan)”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “St. Sarkis Church (Dearborn, Michigan)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.