Le Liban is a Masonic Lodge founded in Beirut on the 29th of July, 1868 under the auspices of the Grand Orient de France.
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History edit
The lodge was created on 29 July 29, 1868.[1][2] The temple was then located in the now-disappeared district of Gargoul in Beirut, where the Freemasons met every Thursday.[3]
Twelve of its eighteen founding members were from the "Palestine No. 415" Lodge,[4] created in Beirut on the 6th of May, 1861, under the authority of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.[5]
Mission edit
The lodge aims to reinforce the associative environment, aiming to emancipate the consciences through knowledge and science. It is also a space allowing free exchange of ideas, at a time when freedom of expression was restricted under the incipient power of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.[2]
References edit
Citations edit
- ^ Millet 2006.
- ^ a b Dupont 2006.
- ^ De Nichievich & De Boehme 1890, p. 448.
- ^ BNF.
- ^ Chaaya 2013.
Sources edit
- BNF. Fonds d'archives maçonniques du GODF, côte FM2-853, période 1868-1875.
- Chaaya, Saïd (2013). Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves; Loiselle, Kenneth; Mercier, Jean-Marie; Zarcone, Thierry (eds.). Au cœur de la Nahda, francs-maçons et loges maçonniques du Liban au xixe siècle [At the heart of the Nahda, Freemasons and Masonic lodges in Lebanon in the 19th century] (in French). Paris: Classiques Garnier. pp. 301–315. ISBN 978-2-8124-4419-7.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - De Nichievich, F. G.; De Boehme, Richard (1890). Annuaire Maçonnique Universel Pour 1889-90 (in French). Alexandria, Egypt: Typo-lithoraphie J.C. LAGOUDAKIS. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
- Dupont, Anne-Laure (2006-06-15). "Usages et acculturation de la Franc-maçonnerie dans les milieux intellectuels arabes à la fin du XIXe siècle à travers l'exemple de Jurji Zaydan (1861-1914)". Cahiers de la Méditerranée (in French) (72): 331–352. doi:10.4000/cdlm.1175. ISSN 0395-9317.
- Millet, Thierry (2006-06-15). "La Franc-maçonnerie en Syrie sous l'administration française (1920-1946)". Cahiers de la Méditerranée (in French) (72): 377–402. doi:10.4000/cdlm.1178. ISSN 0395-9317.