DETROIT — Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, belonged to her God, her city, her community, and now, to the ages.

The cultural institutions she loved have been on full display in the celebration of her life leading up to her homegoing services on Friday. More than two dozen ministers, performers both secular and gospel, along with black entertainers, athletes and civil rights activists make up a who’s who list of black America that will pay tribute to Franklin in a marathon service scheduled to last at least five hours.

Like Franklin, her ceremony will be undoubtedly and unapologetically black, said Detroit native and Georgetown University sociologist Michael Eric Dyson, who will speak at Franklin’s funeral.

“She was our voice for half a century,” said Dyson. “She gave expression to our desires — our spiritual desires, our political desires, our spiritual and sexual desires ... She was a full-service queen. She was The People’s Diva.”

Franklin died Aug. 16 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76.

From the black museum that hosted Aretha Franklin’s public viewing for thousands of her fellow Detroiters, to the gospel tradition that launched her singular musical gifts, to her commitment to social justice through both song and financial assistance, so many here and around the country have expressed their gratitude to Franklin for staying in a city many had long since abandoned, for continuing to inspire a people so often deprived of dignity.

She was a constant and common denominator of black life. In her final role, the funeral will cap a week of tributes that have been not only a testament to her life and musical legacy, but a triumph of black culture.

“Everybody don’t do funerals like we do in the black church,” said gospel artist Marvin Sapp, among the performers Friday. “We don’t even call them funerals. We call them homegoing services, and we know how to send people home.”

The mix of pomp and circumstance with the everyday people Franklin knew and loved began Tuesday under the roof of The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, which long housed the world’s largest permanent exhibit of African-American culture. Franklin lay in repose at the museum for two days as thousands of Detroiters from all walks of life came to say goodbye.

She was brought to and from the museum in the same white 1940 Cadillac LaSalle hearse that carried her father, legendary minister C.L. Franklin, and civil rights icon Rosa Parks.