On the Square?

Previous to mergers, Lodge 2 held meeting in Renaissance Hall

 

We welcome our brothers from within and abroad to join us as we continue our quest to bring fellowship, brotherly love and philanthropy to our fraternity and our community.  Meetings are held in Egyptian hall.  The lodge has enjoyed some expansion and mergers in the last 249 years.  But the spirit of the lodge lives on.

Pennsylvania 380 merged with Lodge 2 in 1983.  The regularly met in Egyptian Hall and became the adoptive home of is combined lodge. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meridian Sun Lodge, Chartered in 1818, met in Corinthian Hall.  The grandest of rooms in the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania Meridian Sun Lodge No. 2, has met in the Masonic Temple, One North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since its completion in 1876.

About Us
Egyptian Hall

Pennsylvania Meridian Sun Lodge No. 2

Free and Accepted Masons

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Corinthian

Pennsylvania Lodge No. 380

The lodge was constituted on January 23,1867.The petitioners were Brothers James Eldon Slater, Harmony Lodge No.52:Brother John R. White, Harmony Lodge No 52,Brother John R. Bruce, Harmony Lodge No.52, Brother Richard F. Bower, Lodge No 3;Brother George C. Ewing, Jr. Eastern Star Lodge,No.186; Brother John Harrison, Mt. Moriah Lodge,No.155;and Brother John Murta, Oriental Lodge No.289.

The warrant Charter Officers were Brother James Eldon Slater, Worshipful Master; Brother John R. White, Senior Warden; and Brother William C. Ewing, Junior Warden, and Brother John Bruce was installed as Treasurer, Brother Richard Bower as Secretary. There was also two petitions for membership, and twenty-one petitions for initiation and membership were received by the lodge.

 

The first stated meeting was held on February 5,1867,in the Blue Room at the Masonic Hall on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.  Also, at the meeting the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was paid eighty-one dollars for the warrant.

On April1,1873 a committee was selected to visit the "New Masonic Hall" and pick the room were Pennsylvania Lodge would meet in the future, known as Egyptian room on the second floor of the Temple.  On October 7,1873 Pennsylvania Lodge held there first meeting in the Egyptian Hall on Broad Street.

December [1883] Grand Master gave his permission to establish the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown, Pa., on April 2,1895 They were directed by Grand Lodge to have a voluntary contribution of  One-Dollar by each member of the Lodge.  At the November 5,1895 meeting a collection of one-hundred dollars was taken and turned over to the Grand Lodge, making Pennsylvania Lodge a member of the Masonic Home of Pennsylvania.

 

Ten members of this lodge resigned in December 1902 And January 1903 for the purpose of forming a new Lodge, No.631-F.& A.M.

On October 5 1965 the DeMolay visited the lodge on Past Master's Night. After the stated meeting of the Lodge

On our stated meeting February 7, 1966.At this meeting the members of Meridian Sun Lodge visited the lodge.

At a stated meeting of March 7,1967, Pennsylvania Lodge voted unanimously to accept the members of Colonial Lodge back into the Mother Lodge.

 

In the year of 1986 Pennsylvania Lodge No.380 merged with Lodge No. 2, becoming Pennsylvania Lodge No 2 F&AM.

 

The rest is history

 

Fraternally Yours

Robert E Ferguson P.M

Grand Lodge Of Pennsylvania

 

FOR PENNSYLVANIA MASONS ONLY

For a history of Pennsylvania freemasonry, visit the Circulating Library Catalogue available on the Grand Lodge web-site specifically for Masonic education and historical research. 

Temple, Philadelphia, is open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays (except July and August) from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. It is closed on Sundays and some legal holidays.

 

Address your request and correspondence to:
The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania
Masonic Temple
One North Broad Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-2520

 

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Upon arriving on the second floor, one encounters the Meeting place of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania: Corinthian Hall. The features of this magnificent room, finished in 1903, are in strict conformity with the principles of Grecian classical architecture, and the best known examples of the Greek Corinthian Order. Columns and capitals are modeled after the perfect ones found in the monument of Lysicrates in Athens. The paneled ceiling in the apse at the east end of the room together with the Caryatides supporting it, depict the Portico of the Caryatides of the Erectheum, a building on the Acropolis, in Athens. Seats on the platform in the East are in accordance with those in the ancient Theatre of Dionysus, also in Athens. Various subjects for the bas-relief medallions over the entrance hall and on the pilasters on the north and south walls were taken from ancient Greek coins and medallions. Pictorial representations in the panels on the large frieze running around the four enclosing walls of the room are copies of historical fragments from Greek mythology relating mostly to spiritual life. The general color scheme of the architectural motif, from floor to ceiling, is dull ivory with gold to accentuate all relief and figure details. The large cove and ceiling are treated in shades of deep blue, studded with gold stars. This creates a sky effect above the line of lattice balustrade, and gives an atmosphere of an open hall in an ancient Greek temple.