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  2. Freemasonry - Wikipedia

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    Masonic lodges existed in Iraq as early as 1917, when the first lodge under the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) was opened. Nine lodges under UGLE existed by the 1950s, and a Scottish lodge was formed in 1923. However, the position changed following the revolution, and all lodges were forced to close in 1965. [206]

  3. List of Masonic Grand Lodges - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge. 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).

  4. History of Freemasonry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Masonic lodge - Wikipedia

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    Villa Blye in Paola, Malta, is a Masonic Temple where lodges of British and Irish Freemasons meet Masonic lodge room in the Austrian Museum of Freemasonry, Schloss Rosenau , Waldviertel, Austria Masonic lodge room in Dublin, Ireland. Freemasons meet as a lodge, not in a lodge. In this context, the word "lodge" refers to a local chapter of ...

  6. List of Freemasons (A–D) - Wikipedia

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    Author of The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1723) and The New Book of Constitutions of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons (1738) [36] Joseph Anderson (1757–1837), U.S. senator from Tennessee and first comptroller of the U.S. Treasury. Military Lodge No. 19 of Pennsylvania and Lodge No. 36 in the New Jersey ...

  7. History of Masonic Grand Lodges in North America - Wikipedia

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    Masonic Hall, Grand Lodge F.A.M., Macon, Georgia 1876. This is a chronology of the formation of "regular" or "mainstream" Masonic Grand Lodges in North America, descending from the Premier Grand Lodge of England or its rival, the Antient Grand Lodge of England.

  8. List of Freemasons - Wikipedia

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    Grand Lodge governance may have shifted or reorganized, resulting in further loss of records on the member or the name, number, location or even existence of the lodge in question. In areas of the world where Masonry has been suppressed by governments, records of entire grand lodges have been destroyed.

  9. List of Masonic Grand Lodges United States - Wikipedia

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    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).