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The building's foundation stone was laid on 14 April 1879. It was consecrated on 27 December. The Masonic Club, which was occupied the ground floor, was inaugurated on 2 July 1888. The building was designed by Thomas A. Cargill, a municipal engineer and a Freemason. A basement was excavated from 1953 to 1956 and housed the Masonic Library.
The first Freemason lodge in Southeast Asia was established in the British Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia) in 1765.The first lodge in Singapore, Zetland in the East Lodge No. 508 E. C., was established on 8 December 1845 at Armenian Street, later relocating to a newly constructed Masonic Hall at Coleman Street in 1879.
Originally constructed as a Masonic Hall, the building has changed hands a number of times. From the 1960s through the 1990s, it housed a succession of live music clubs. Later in the 1990s, it was the home of Open Mike with Mike Bullard, and was one of CTV Toronto 's news bureaus.
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in Asia. 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).
Member of Prince Hall Freemasonry. [109] [110] Ron Greenwood, England national football team manager 1977–1982. Initiated in Lodge of Proven Fellowship, London in 1956 [111] Henri Grégoire, Roman Catholic priest, Constitutional bishop of Blois and French revolutionary leader [112] Jules Grévy, President of the French Third Republic (1879 ...
John Turnbull Thomson (10 August 1821 – 16 October 1884) was a British civil engineer and artist who played an instrumental role in the development of the early infrastructure of nineteenth-century Singapore and New Zealand. [1] He lived the last 28 years of his life in New Zealand, and prior to that fifteen years in the Malay Straits and ...
The Singapore Turf Club, formerly known as the Singapore Sporting Club, was founded by Read on 4 October 1842. Marking the 24th anniversary of the founding of Singapore by Sir Stamford Raffles, the first races were held on 23 and 25 February 1843. Read himself won the first Derby, called the Singapore Cup, and took home the prize money of $150. [9]
0–9. 2 Cable Road; 2 Kampong Kapor Road; 25 Chapel Road; 30 Meyer Road; 42 Waterloo Street; 54-58 Waterloo Street; 60 Waterloo Street; 61 Meyer Road; 72-13; 78 Moh Guan Terrace