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