Le Liban

Le Liban is a Masonic Lodge founded in Beirut on the 29th of July, 1868 under the auspices of the Grand Orient de France.

Le Liban

Seal of the lodge
Formation	1868
Location	Beirut Lebanon

History

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

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

Citations

1. Millet 2006.
2. Dupont 2006.
3. De Nichievich & De Boehme 1890, p. 448.
4. BNF.
5. Chaaya 2013.

Sources

• 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.