Stanley Hong's Mannia Cafe - Detroit

This one was tough to research, thanks to Mikem of detroityes.com for coming thru on this one! Located at 265 Baltimore ( both the street sign and address have been removed ) at the opening of this restaurant it was stated to be "Detroit's most beautiful Chinese-American restaurant". I believe it opened in 1968. It later closed and became the Omega Baptist Church and then the Grace Fellowship Baptist Church. Personally I am having trouble picturing this sci-fi building as a Chapel....they merely stuck a small, white cross in middle of the "horn".

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kelley girl says:

It was a part of "Paradise Valley", it should be right around Hastings, I think? South of West Grand Blvd.? The last time I went by, it was a church.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Hogg says:

It is/was a church.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

newspapermann says:

I don't think it was a church. I think it was a former Chinese restaurant.. I think it was called Stanley Lim's or something like that. It was his second location. I cant recall where the first was, but he didnt have such a signature building.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Keith Emmerich Photography says:

I might be hard to see as a church...maybe this will help

enjoy,
KE
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

kelley girl says:

I thought I remembered it right! Thanks! I worked just on the other side of W. Grand from there!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

baby7 says:

excellent
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Ruin T says:

Beautiful googie building!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

agilitynut says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mid-Century Architecture (Non-Residential), and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

qaly66a says:

I know a whole lot about this place. My aunt worked at this Stanley's from the time it opened until she retired in 1984. She started with them in 1956 when it was at 565 E. Canfield. And yes, it was a premiere chinese restaurant. She served everybody from Duke Ellington to Sammy Davis, Jr. in its days. Yes, it was a church, now it is abandoned. The restaurant is now alive and well at Woodward and 8 Mile Rd.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Derek Farr ( DetroitDerek ) says:

I pass that restaraunt every day and it never clicked that they were "related". Thanks for the info!

A gentleman from the Detroityes website happened to send me a flyer from when this building was being built.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

mlfot says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Chinese Restaurant Worldwide Documentation Project, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Derek Farr ( DetroitDerek ) says:

I have an updated pic of this building that I took last week that I'll be posting soon.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Jim Rees says:

Yes, this one is hard to research. Here it is at night in 1999. You can see why I thought it was a tiki bar. Looks like the arch over the parking lot entrance is gone now.

Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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