Freemasonry by country

Freemasonry currently saw an identity crisis and nothing any more but 2 million members in the world in 2005 counts, against 7 million in the years 1950. Anglo-American masonry thus lost half of its registered manpower and 90% of its real manpower in 25 years. The France is comparatively one of the countries where it resists best as well as the Belgium. In the majority of the Latin country S, it is the freemasonry of the liberal branch (or continental ) which prevails, whereas the rest of the world rather tends to follow the Anglo-American branch. In certain country, however, two movements coexist, is in friendly relation of comprehension mutual (in particular in certain areas where freemasonry, all confused tendencies, was particularly persecuted), that is to say with more tended reports/ratios.

Germany

Germany is, with England, Scotland and France, one of the principal cradles of freemasonry modern, known as " spéculative". However, the German freemasonry, entirely destroyed by the dictatorship Nazi, never managed to find its glare of formerly.

Belgium

The first Belgian cabin was the Perfect Union created in 1721; it now appears under number 1 in the Tableau of Cabin of the Grand the East of Belgium itself made up in 1833. Currently the majority of the cabins in Belgium belong to the connects liberal . There exists however the Regular Big room of Belgium, only Belgian obedience having bonds of friendship with the Anglo-Saxon Big rooms.

Canada

Two of the oldest cabins of the News-France which exist still today, Antiquity Lodge no.1 and the Cabin Albion no.2, were created respectively with Montreal and Quebec in 1752. In Canada, they are the traditional freemasons of the regular current who historically prevailed.

Chile

Spain

The United States

Freemasonry has well-established in the United States. The freemasons states-uniens represent approximately two thirds of the freemasons of the whole world, that is to say approximately four million, gathered in 50 Big rooms independent from/to each other and in 15.000 workshops, this figure not taking account of the Big rooms of Prince Hall. Each State has its own Big room, except for Hawaii whose Big room is placed under the authority of the Big room of California.

France

Freemasonry in France would date from the end of the 17th century with the arrival of the Jacobites expelled of Great Britain. This information was given during integration in 1777 of the cabin “ Perfect Égalité ”, The East of German Saint in Bush hammer, with the young person the Great East of France without no checking at the time summer making (cf Act of integration).

In 2005, there is 135 000 members with various maconnic obediences. All obediences always do not recognize like the such ones the others, according to certain criteria.

The United Kingdom

The June 24th 1717, at the time of Midsummer's Day, four cabins London join to create the first maconnic obedience of the history, the “Big room of London” whose Scottish Pasteur James Anderson will write with the assistance of Pasteur of French origin Jean Theophilus Désaguliers the Constitutions in 1723 and who will lead to modern freemasonry. It is asked there in particular that the Masons “are fixed only with this religion on which all the men are of agreement, leaving with each one its own opinions”.

See also: Freemasonry in the United Kingdom

Israel

Italy

Established by merchants and soldiers of all the Europe in the years 1730, the Franc-maçonnerie in Italy will connaîtera an effervescence contrasted by the oppositions of the Catholic church and the Fascisme thereafter.

Morocco

Freemasonry exists since more than one century with the Morocco, where it was established in particular via foreign military cabins. One of its most known members was the emir Abd El-Kader.

Poland

It in 1742 that the first true Cabin appears, is rested by the Marshal of Lithuania, Mniszek, in the town of Wisniovec. After having been prohibited during all second half of the 20th century, freemasonry starts to reappear in Poland.

Romania

Switzerland

The few 4700 Brothers and more than 300 Swiss Sisters are distributed between the Swiss Big room Alpina (regular male Obedience) and other male obediences Grand the East of Switzerland (GOS), female (GLFS), mixed Human right (DH), without forgetting many Cabins known as " indépendantes" and which does not belong to any obedience.

Manpower decrease but the number of obediences and especially of Cabins tends to increase. If a Swiss Cabin of the middle of the XXe century comprised 50 masons easily, it is not rare that the average of the presences in the “table” oscillates between 15 and 20 nowadays. Quarrels between masons are often at the origin of “swarmings”. But on another side, of the workshops to more reduced manpower allow each Brother or Sister to find her place in its Cabin.

Turkey

A freemasonry of the French type is established in Turkey with the whole beginning of the 20th century. It is established first of all with Salonique then with Istanbul by the military cabins born from the Crimean War and the cabins of intellectuals who take support on the French Jewish professors of the schools of the Alliance Jew of Adolphe Crémieux.

Uruguay

References and notes

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