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The Detroit Masonic Temple is the world's largest Masonic Temple. [2] Located in the Cass Corridor neighborhood of Detroit , Michigan , at 500 Temple Street, the building serves as a home to various masonic organizations including the York Rite Sovereign College of North America . [ 3 ]
The members of Zion Lodge sponsored and supported additional Lodges in Upper Canada and Michigan including Detroit Lodge No. 337 (now No. 2), Oakland Lodge No. 343 in Pontiac, Menomenie Lodge No. 374 in Green Bay (then a part of the Territory) and Monroe Lodge No. 375 in Monroe. These five Lodges laid plans for a Grand Lodge in the Territory to ...
The Grand Lodge of Michigan appears to have met at 535 Frederick Street during this time; in 1943 the Prince Hall Masons of Detroit purchased a building at 275 East Ferry Street, in what is now the East Ferry Avenue Historic District, to use as a meeting hall. The move to the Gratiot Avenue building, though, reflected the sophistication of ...
Zion Lodge No. 1 F&AM is the earliest documented Masonic Lodge west of the Allegheny Mountains that was first warranted as ‘Lodge No. 1 in Detroit’ on Friday, April 27, 1764, by George Harison, Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of New York, with Lt. John Christie (1740–1782) of the 2nd Battalion, 60th Royal American ...
Built as a commercial building, the Hampton Masonic Lodge was the first tenant in the upstairs space. [22] The upstairs space was later used by the Farmers Home Administration and several mercantile establishments before being acquired by the county for use as a public library. [23] 10: Knob School-Masonic Lodge: 1923 built 1991 NRHP-listed AR 141
John J. Bagley (1832–1881), 16th governor of Michigan. Member of Charity Lodge No. 94, Detroit, Michigan. [10] Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741–1792), German theologian and adventurer. Freemason, who with other Freemasons founded the "German Union" or the "Two and Twenty" society at Halle. [10]
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).
Palestine Lodge No 357, Detroit. [55] Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate States Army general. Angerona Lodge No. 168, Memphis, Tennessee – received only the First Degree and never advanced further. [1] Steven D. Foster, American politician [56] Benjamin Franklin, American inventor and statesman. St. John's Lodge, Philadelphia, February 1731 ...