The site of a horrific mass killing will become a house of worship again.
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, will hold a service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
Nine people were shot to death Wednesday night at the church.
Two law enforcement officials said Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, admitted to shooting and killing the people he'd sat with for Bible study at the historically black church.
Roof, 21, is white, and all the victims were black.
He told investigators he did it to start a race war, according to one of the officials.
The church area remained a crime scene, and thus off-limits to church members, until Charleston police released it Saturday.
One of the victims was the church's pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney.
The Rev. Norvel Goff, presiding elder of Emanuel AME, told CNN he will give the sermon at the service.
Charleston, nicknamed the Holy City because it has so many churches, will remember the shooting victims in other ways.
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