Grand Lodge of Costa Rica

The Grand Lodge of Costa Rica is the main organization of regular Freemasonry in Costa Rica. It was created on December 7, 1879 and was the first in Central America.^[1]

It was formed with the union of all the existing lodges at that time in the country, these were: Charity, Hope, Faith, Fraternal Union, Progress, Wonder, Sincere Friendship, Disillusion, Concord and the Future, Regeneration, Fraternal Union, The Light, Freedom and Phoenix.

They use the Scottish Rite, the Rectified Scottish Rite, the Rite of Strict Observance and the York Rite. The lodges that comprise it are exclusively male.^[2]

In 2013, he sponsored the 46th Meeting of the Central American Confederation of Masons.^[3]

The headquarters of the Grand Lodge is located in Cuesta de Moras, San José, next to the Legislative Assembly where the Rafael Obregón Loría Masonic Museum is also located. The Grand Lodge also directs the Masonic Pro Charity Foundation.^[4]

References

^ Obregón Loría, Rafael. La Masonería en Costa Rica.
^ Martínez Esquivel, Ricardo (2009). ""Conspiradores políticos" y "sectas misteriosas": imaginarios sociales sobre la masonería en costa rica (1865-1899)". Revista Estudios. 3316Escuela de Estudios Generales, Universidad de Costa Rica. 22. Archived from the original on 10 July 2013.
^ "Masones en Costa Rica: "La masonería no está interesada en hacer un orden mundial"". CRHoy. 2013.
^ "Los discretos masones". El Financiero. 25 June 2000. Archived from the original on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

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