Despite protesters, death threats, and a torrential downpour, the Satanic Temple unveiled its one-and-a-half-ton, nine-foot goat-headed Baphomet monument in Detroit on Saturday. The statue was revealed to a sold-out crowd of hundreds just before midnight, at a secret party held in an industrial space outside of the city’s downtown area.
Billing it as the “most controversial and politically charged contemporary work of art in the world” in a press release, the Temple kept the location of the unveiling a closely guarded secret in an effort to keep religious protesters away.