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Turku Odd Fellow House: 2011: 2011 Rätiälänkatu 2, Turku, Finland Finland: In the Odd Fellow House in Turku there is space for 11 Lodges which have their meetings on the weeknights at 19.00. In Turku there are both Swedish and Finnish speaking Lodges, in this Odd Fellow House the Finnish speaking Lodges have their meetings.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was established in Cuba when Porvenir Lodge no.1 was instituted in Havana on August 26, 1883. More lodges were then instituted the following years. [31] In 2012 there were about 116 Odd Fellows Lodges, 50 Rebekahs Lodges, 33 Encampments, 12 cantons and 2 Junior Lodges, totaling to about 15,000 members in ...
Subsequently, the odd fellows became religiously and politically independent. Prince George the Prince of Wales, later King George IV of the United Kingdom (1762–1830), admitted in 1780, was the first documented of many odd fellows to also adhere to freemasonry; both societies remained mutually independent.
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Odd Fellows' Home or Odd Fellows Home may refer to: in the United States (by state then city) Caldwell Odd Fellow Home for the Aged, Caldwell, Idaho, NRHP-listed; Odd Fellows' Home (Worcester, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed; Odd Fellows' Home for Orphans, Indigent and Aged, Springfield, Ohio, NRHP-listed; Carmen IOOF Home, Carmen, Oklahoma, NRHP ...
After the devastation caused by the fire, the Imperial Academy of Turku, the university at that time, moved to Helsinki. However, the building was restored under Carl Ludvig Engel 's plans in 1830 and was signed over to the Court of Appeals of Turku, Turku Cathedral chapter and the County Administrative Board.
Other Englishmen who were Odd Fellows had grouped in the states along the Eastern Seaboard, and Wildey gathered them all into the newly formed fraternity. He traveled widely to set up lodges in the most recently settled parts of the country. At the time of his death in 1861, there were more than 200,000 members of the IOOF.
Åbo Svenska Teater (Finnish: Turun ruotsalainen teatteri) is a Finland-Swedish theatre in the city of Turku in Finland and the oldest theatre in the country, founded in 1839. The building itself is also the oldest still functioning theatre house in Finland. The name means "The Swedish theatre of Åbo"; Åbo is the Swedish name of the city of ...