When Did Masonry Start?
National Organized Freemasonry Began in 1717 with the Founding of the Grand Lodge—an Association of Masonic Lodges—in England. However, Freemason Societies...
National organized Freemasonry began in 1717 with the founding of the Grand Lodge—an association of Masonic lodges—in England. However, Freemason societies have existed for much longer. The most popular theory is that Freemasonry emerged out of the stonemasonry guilds of the Middle Ages.
Who was the 1st Mason?
The first American Mason lodge was established in Philadelphia in 1730, and future revolutionary leader Benjamin Franklin was a founding member.
When was the first Masonic lodge formed?
A Grand Lodge
Officially, the Grand Lodge was founded on 24 June 1717, St. John the Baptist's day, when four existing Lodges gathered at the Goose and Gridiron alehouse in St Paul's churchyard, London and constituted themselves as a Grand Lodge.
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