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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.
In the 1930s, Finnish far right groups, inspired by the Fascists and the Nazis, campaigned prominently against Freemasonry and similar organizations, such as the Odd Fellows. [1] There were also efforts to ban Masons from the officer corps of the Finnish Armed Forces and from the Lutheran clergy. [ 1 ]
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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.
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.
On 2 May 1776, the Grand Master of the Swedish Freemasonic Order, Duke Charles, had his spouse, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, inaugurated as the Grand Mistress of a female lodge of adoption to his own lodge at the Royal Palace, Stockholm, named "Le véritable et constante amitié". [5]
The Leeds Odd Fellows, Queen Square, Leeds Subsequent breakaways from the parent Grand United Order and from the new Manchester Unity Order resulted in the formation of further Orders of Odd Fellows. In the case of the parent Order, various lodges seceded in 1832 to found the Ancient & Noble (Bolton Unity), which subsequently dissolved in 1962 ...
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 ...