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York Rite Blue Lodges and Scottish Rite Blue Lodges

CajunTinMan

Registered User
I have seen this for years and I don't know the difference. Some lodges are founded in the York Rite and some are founded in Scottish Rite. What are the differences?
 

KSigMason

Traveling Templar
Site Benefactor
Most in the United States are York Rite based Blue Lodges, but there are some like in NOLA which are Scottish Rite based. I saw a big difference in the 1st degree and the 3rd degree, particularly a large difference in the Hiramic legend.
 

Pscyclepath

Premium Member
I have seen this for years and I don't know the difference. Some lodges are founded in the York Rite and some are founded in Scottish Rite. What are the differences?

Essentially, all blue lodges in the U.S. are York Rite lodges as well. The exception is in Louisiana, where there are a very few lodges in the New Orleans area that were chartered under a Scottish Rite grand lodge back in 1856, The Scottish GL, organized by a fellow named James Foulhouze, who did not care a flip for the Southern Jurisdiction of the SR, organized it so as to serve as both a grand lodge and a supreme council, conferring both the three degrees of symbolic Masonry as well as the degrees of the Scottish Rite at that time. Both the SR and regular lodges were united into the Grand Lodge of Louisiana around 1859 or 1860, but the half dozen or so "red" lodges originally chartered under the SR have managed to hang onto their old rituals.
 

Bro. Stewart P.M.

Lead Moderator Emeritus
Staff Member
The newly chartered O.K. Allen Lodge #33 is the newest Lodge within the GLoLA that is authorized to operate in the SR format. It is located in Winnfield.
 
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