5720 State Road, Parma; construction began in 1981; exterior completed in 1983. Byzantine.

Exterior: St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral is mostly brick, but Mankato-Kasota stone (Oneota Dolostone), a cream-colored (grayish orange) dolostone quarried in the Mankato-Kasota area of southern Minnesota, is used along the base of the church, for the west doorway, window frames, and other trim. This stone contains many easily seen circular to curved, subcylindrical features, most ranging from a few millimeters to two centimeters in width. These features are fossil trackways: they have become more evident over time because of weathering of the stone, resulting in differential darkening and etching. The plaza at the west entrance to the church is probably made of Oconee granite, a pinkish gray granite with large crystals of feldspar, lots of black horneblende, and gray quartz, quarried in Georgia. This stone has a thermal finish, providing a roughened surface.

Interior: The baseboards in the nave and narthex are black Pennsylvania clear slate with a natural cleft finish. Flooring in the nave is a terrazzo composed of pink to dark purple stone fragments imbedded in beige and darker greenish gray cements. Panels at the base of the large structural supports, between the iconstasis and the side altars, and flanking the doors adjacent to the side altars, are Rojo Alicante marble, a moderate reddish brown limestone with white veining. Rojo Alicante is quarried in Alicante, Spain. It contains numerous cephalopods, including belemnites and ammonites. The cream-colored stonework of the iconostasis, including several pillars, is Botticino marble. The tetrapod, the main altar, side altars, and cut out designs in the church are also Botticino. Flooring of the bema is a beige (very pale orange) limestone, probably Perlato Sicilia (Cream Perla), quarried in Sicily. The steps in front of the iconostasis are a brown breccia, probably Paradiso Brown or a similar stone.

Remarks: See St. Columba Cathedral for another, more spectacular, use of Mankato stone.

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