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An organization of Grand Lodge leaders, representing 64 sovereign jurisdictions located throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and Germany. Its members are broadly recognized by jurisdictions throughout the world. Today, these CGMNA jurisdictions serve over 2 million Freemasons in North America. [4] Its oldest constituent Grand Lodge dates itself to ...
New York Grand Lodge of New York (2) [17] National Compact: United States New York Hiram Grand Lodge [133] [134] United States New York Omega Grand Lodge [1] [135] CLIPSAS United States New York Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New York [10] [136] 1845 [20] 72 5,300 [13] PHCGM, PHA: United States New York Rose of Sharon Grand Lodge [137] [138] Int ...
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in North America. 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).
By 1957, there were more than 4 million Freemasons in the United States. The Grand Lodge of Indiana had its highest membership at that time with 546 lodges and 185,211 members, or 4% of the state's total population of 4.5 million. [9] Indiana at that time was the fifth largest Masonic jurisdiction in the world. [2]
The first documented presence of Freemasonry in New York dates from the mid-1730s, when Daniel Coxe Jr. (1673–1739), was appointed by Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk, the Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, known to historians as the "Moderns", to act as a Provincial Grand Master for the provinces of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
The majority of Masonic jurisdictions around the world follow the Anglo-American style. The United Grand Lodge of England lists 194 Grand Lodges which it considers to be Regular [7] and the Grand Lodge of New York lists 202 which it considers to be Regular, [8] while the umbrella organisation for Liberal Freemasonry, CLIPSAS, lists 90 members. [9]
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Jephtha Lodge building on New York Avenue, Huntington, circa 1905–1910. Jephtha Masonic Lodge No. 494 is an historic Masonic lodge, part of the fraternal organization of Freemasonry, located in Huntington, New York, [1] part of the Suffolk Masonic District [2] in Eastern, Long Island. It was established in late 1859.