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The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the Caribbean was founded with the assistance of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New York. It is based in Christ Church, Barbados, the location of Prince Hall's birth. [22] A monument to Prince Hall has been erected outside the Grand Lodge building. [23]
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in United States. A 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).
Originally built as a synagogue for the Temple Oheb Shalom congregation, the property was sold to the Prince Hall Masons in 1960, and is called Prince Hall Grand Lodge. [2] It was built in 1892 as the second home of the Oheb Shalom congregation, and borrows its Byzantine Revival design elements from the Great Synagogue of Florence. [3]
NRHP-listed [3] The building serves as the headquarters of the Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge of Florida and Belize (a Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge). [55] 4: Masonic Temple of Citrus Lodge No. 118, F. and A.M. 1910 built 2010 NRHP-listed 111 West Main Street and 95 South Pine Avenue Inverness, Florida: Neoclassical. [3] Vacated by the ...
Prince Hall Affiliation (PHA) 1870 An association of 49 historically black Grand Lodges located throughout North America, the Caribbean, and Liberia, which trace their origin to Prince Hall, of Massachusetts. Many of these GLs are in amity with their CGMNA counterparts and with the United Grand Lodge of England.
Hall was born between 1735 and 1738. [3] [4] [a] His place of birth and parents are also unclear.[5] [b] Hall mentioned in his writings that New England was his homeland.The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in its Proceedings of 1906, opted for 1738, relying on a letter from Reverend Jeremy Belknap, a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. [5]
The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge for which it is named was founded in 1865 by a group of African American civilian employees of the U.S. Naval Academy. The lodge purchased the building in the 1940s, and substantially renovated it for use as a meeting hall over the next decade. [2] In 2019 a $200,000 grant was secured to repair the exterior of the ...
Under this permit, African Lodge was organized on July 3, 1776. Prince Hall was elected Worshipful Master. This permit, however, was limited. It did not allow them to do any "masonic work" or to take in any new members. [6] Hall then applied to the Grand Lodge of England for a more complete warrant (or charter). This request was granted on ...