Masonic Places and Masonic-Related Places I have visited
Grand Lodges I have visited
- 17th June 2008: Grand Lodge of Scotland - Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh :: For a tour around the Rooms and Museum, also got a signed copy of "The Rosslyn Hoax?" by Robert Cooper. (Before becoming a Mason)
- March 2007: United Grand Lodge of England - Freemasons' Hall, London :: For a tour around the Museum, Rooms and Temple (Before becoming a Mason)
Provincial Grand Lodges I have visited
- May 2008: Province of Bristol (UGLE, UK) - Freemasons' Hall, Bristol :: This will become my mother province. So far I have had a brief tour, I expect that I will get to know this building a lot more in the future.
- May 2007: Province of Oxfordshire (UGLE) - Oxford Masonic Centre, Oxford :: I was considering joining Freemasonry when I lived in Oxford, but I decided to postpone it because I knew that I was moving to Bristol.
Other loosely related places of interest to Masons
- 16th June 2008: Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin (near Edinburgh), Scotland :: Visited, bought the book by the current Earl of Rosslyn. Some say that this building is heavily related to Freemasonry and the Knights Templar... however the only concrete relationship between Rosslyn and Freemasonry is the fact that the William Sinclair that built the Chapel hired stonemasons, and a later William Sinclair was asked to be the Grand Master of the Freemasons.
- Early 2007: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford :: Visited. Many people know that the Ashmolean Museum is a collection of Elias Ashmole. The building is also allegedly built by Christopher Wren. Both Ashmole and Wren were Freemasons. I don't think I saw anything in the museum which was overtly Masonic, although there was a small golden ring with what looked like a square and compass on it.... but I couldn't be sure.
- September 2007: Île de la Cité, Paris. Where Jacque de Molay (the official Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar) was executed. The Notre Dame de Paris is here, which is a great work of stonemasonry, and a wonderful cathederal.