Symbolic East
( Last modified on 11 Aug 2010 10:58 )

When a Masonic Hall, or a Catholic Church (and perhaps churches of other denominations for that matter), must be built facing in a direction such that is cannot be oriented along an East-West axis the location where the Worshipful Master of a Lodge, or the Priest of a Religion, stands is considered to be East, at least symbolically.  (I have also heard the the Priest is to face the East instead of stand in the East.)

Could it be that both the Freemasons and the Churches 'borrowed' this idea from the Sun Worshipers of old?