Culture & heritage / Eastern Market area (Russell & Canfield)
Sweetest Heart of Mary Pierogi Festival
An August weekend at Detroit's Polish landmark church: handmade pierogi, polka, folk dancers and a beer tent. Next up: Aug. 13–15, 2027.
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Ask anyone in Detroit where to get pierogi in August and you'll hear the same answer: Sweetest Heart of Mary, the Polish church on Russell Street just up from Eastern Market. Its Pierogi Festival has been going for more than four decades; 2021 was the 40th, and Fox 2 has called it the largest Polish festival in metro Detroit. For three days you get Polish food, a beer tent and grill, polka bands, folk dancers, a bake sale, kids' games and raffles, plus a reverent polka Mass on Saturday. Take the church tour, too: the Gothic brick church is as stunning inside as it is outside.
- Handmade pierogi and other Polish dishes
- Beer tent, grill and polka bands
- Polish folk dancers and a Saturday polka Mass
- Tours of the Gothic Sweetest Heart of Mary church
- Kids' tent, bake sale and raffles
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