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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.
In 2007, the Masonic Club was relocated to the basement. The building underwent a $7.5 million renovation, which was completed in 2012. [4] From 2013 to 2015, the ground floor housed the Bacchanalia restaurant, which was then replaced by Madison Rooms, a private club. In early 2019, another restaurant, The Masons Table, opened in the ground ...
Freemasons' Hall, Singapore. Freemasons' Hall, 23A Coleman Street, Central Region ... The lodge traces its history to the building of Kilwinning Abbey, circa 1140 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
This page provides links to alphabetized lists of notable Freemasons. Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation which exists in a number of forms worldwide. Throughout history some members of the fraternity have made no secret of their involvement, while others have not made their membership public.
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 ...