(Temple Tifereth Israel), Temple Israel Congregation, East 105th Street at Silver Park, Cleveland; built 1923-1924/25. Byzantine.

Exterior: Indiana limestone (Salem Limestone), set in alternating tall and thin courses is used for exterior cladding. The stone in the narrow courses is tooled with vertical drovework. Entrance stairs are also Indiana limestone. This stone has many easily visible fossils, including bryozoans, brachiopods, corals, and blastoids (a type of sea lily). Shafts of the large columns at the front entrance and smaller columns on the upper levels are a fossiliferous pink and beige limestone (probably Tennessee marble) containing prominent stylolites and prominent fossils (large orthocerid cephalopods, brachiopods, and bryozoans). The base of the large columns are fashioned from Tennessee marble. The columns are weathered and there has been dissolution along some of these stylolites. Some sandstone flagstone remains on the front.

Interior: Hallways are of gray Tennessee marble. The hallway in the south entranceway includes very fossiliferous, reddish Tennessee marble that contains large, prominent orthocerid cephalopods, like those illustrated by Dale (1924, p.117) . The main sanctuary has benches of Tennessee marble (limestone from the Holston Formation) and pillars made of various stones, including Tennessee marble and a pink limestone.

Reference: Stanwood, 1925.

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