Le Liban

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]

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]

• BNF. Fonds d'archives maçonniques du GODF, côte FM2-853, période 1868-1875.
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