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Masonic lodge - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_lodgeA Masonic lodge, often termed a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry. It is also commonly used as a term for a building in which such a unit meets. Every new lodge must be warranted or chartered by a Grand Lodge, but is subject to its direction only in enforcing the published constitution of the ...
Masonic lodge officer - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_lodge_officerThe senior officer of a Masonic Lodge is the Master, normally addressed and referred to as the "Worshipful Master" (in Scotland, and in Lodges under the Scottish Constitution, the "Right Worshipful Master").The Worshipful Master sits in the East of the lodge room, chairs all of the business of his lodge, and is vested with considerable powers without further reference to the …
List of Masonic abbreviations - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Masonic_AbbreviationsMasonic abbreviations of technical terms or of official titles are very extensively used in Freemasonry.They serve to abbreviate long or commonly-referenced titles in the fraternity.. These abbreviations were rarely employed in the earlier Masonic publications. There are no abbreviations, for example, found in Anderson's Constitutions.These came into use particularly …
List of Masonic Grand Lodges - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Masonic_Grand_LodgesA Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit). Some are large, with thousands of members divided into hundreds of ...
Masonic manuscripts - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_manuscriptsThe Halliwell Manuscript, also known as the Regius Poem, is the earliest of the Old Charges.It consists of 64 vellum pages of Middle English written in rhyming couplets. In this, it differs from the prose of all the later charges. The poem begins by describing how Euclid "counterfeited geometry" and called it masonry, for the employment of the children of the nobility in Ancient …
SF Masonic Auditorium - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF_Masonic_AuditoriumThe SF Masonic Auditorium (originally the Grand Masonic Auditorium and formerly known as the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium) is a building and auditorium located atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California.The building was designed by Bay Area architect Albert Roller (1891-1981), and opened in 1958. It serves as the meeting venue for the Masons of California during their …
Masonic Temple - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_templeA Masonic Temple or Masonic Hall is, within Freemasonry, the room or edifice where a Masonic Lodge meets. Masonic Temple may also refer to an abstract spiritual goal and the conceptual ritualistic space of a meeting. Development and history. Goose and Gridiron tavern, where the United Grand Lodge of ...
Grand Lodge of New York - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Lodge_of_New_YorkThe Grand Lodge of New York (officially, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York) is the largest and oldest independent organization of Freemasons in the U.S. state of New York. It was at one time the largest grand lodge in the world in terms of membership. [citation needed]The Grand Lodge of New York was founded December 15, 1782 and it acts …
Rite of Memphis-Misraim - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_Memphis-MisraimThe Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm is a masonic rite founded in Naples, Italy in September 1881 by the merger of two older rites; the Rite of Misraïm and the Rite of Memphis.Although founded in 1881, its predecessors have their origins in the 18th century. The system is sometimes known as "Egyptian Freemasonry" due to the invocation of hermetic …
Mozart and Freemasonry - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_FreemasonryMozart's lodges. Mozart was admitted as an Apprentice to the Viennese Masonic lodge called "Zur Wohltätigkeit" ("Beneficence") on 14 December 1784. He was promoted to Fellow on 7 January 1785, and became a Master Mason "shortly thereafter". Mozart also attended the meetings of another lodge, called "Zur wahren Eintracht" ("True Concord").