The Cathedral of the Madeleine is the primary cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. The Romanesque cathedral was designed architects, by Carl M. Newhausen and Bernard O. Mecklenburg. Salt Lake City's first bishop, Reverend Lawrence Scanlan presided over the construction which began in 1899. Construction of the church took ten years and cost $344,000.00, a substantial sum at the time.

Though Romanesque on the exterior, the interior is Spanish gothic and wasn't fully completed until 1917. Designed by John Theodore Comes of Pittsburgh, the leading American church architect of his time, the goal was to update and beautify the rather plain interior of the church. Renovations and restoration of the interior were completed in the early 90's to bring the cathedral up to new church standards. With the exception of the Tympanum (the triangular decoration over the arched doorways), the exterior is very near its original appearance.

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