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In Turkey Freemasonry was introduced by foreign merchants in the eighteenth century (1721) and was outlawed by Mahmud I in 1748, although it slowly came back and Freemasons were exiled as part of a crackdown on the Bektashis in 1826. [28] Freemasonry was legalised as apart of the Ottoman reforms in the 19th century. [29] A Grand Orient was ...
The history of Freemasonry encompasses the origins, evolution and defining events of the fraternal organisation known as Freemasonry.It covers three phases. Firstly, the emergence of organised lodges of operative masons during the Middle Ages, then the admission of lay members as "accepted" (a term reflecting the ceremonial "acception" process that made non-stone masons members of an operative ...
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).
Freemasonry is the oldest fraternity in the world and among the oldest continued organizations in history. [4] Modern Freemasonry broadly consists of two main recognition groups: Regular Freemasonry, which insists that a "volume of sacred law", such as the Bible, the Quran, or other religious scripture be open in a working lodge, that every ...
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. [1] [2] [3]
Freemasons originally only included Europeans and Indo-Europeans, but later also indigenous people with a Western education. Active freemasonry existed throughout the Dutch East Indies (now: Indonesia) from 1762 to 1962. The first lodge in Asia "La Choisie" was founded in Batavia by Jacobus Cornelis Mattheus Radermacher (1741–1783).
While in 1774 the first two native-born candidates were initiated into freemasonry, [3] the lodge failed to gain a foothold among the local population, and was dependent on visitors, which led to the Lodge becoming dormant in 1781 until it was revived in 1794, when more local residents were attracted to the fraternity, such as J. A. Truter, who ...
In the UK, the term "Light Blue Lodge" typically refers to a Craft Lodge which focuses on new and young masons or any Freemasons begin their journey. The name "Light Blue" comes from the color of the aprons worn by new members and young Masons, which are light blue, symbolizing the early stages of their Masonic journey.