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A spate of new Masonic lodges have gone up across the state in recent years. What they are building is reshaping the landscape of California Masonry.

Prince Hall Grand Master David San Juan and G. Sean Metroka of the Grand Lodge of California on deepening an important Masonic partnership.

Largely overlooked by historians, Prince Hall remains a towering figure of both Masonic history—and American history writ large.

At La France No. 885, a longstanding legacy of French Freemasonry in California is being carried into the future.

Celebrating the best and brightest of Freemasonry in California.

Dennis Caoile and Henry Dosdorian, the 2024 Masons of the Year, demonstrate that the common denominator of Freemasonry is service to others.

In a capstone to a remarkable life and career in Freemasonry, R. Stephen Doan is the 2024 Recipient of the Grand Master’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

For 175 Years, the Grand Lodge of California has left its mark on the state.

Since its founding in 1850, California Masonry has had a profound influence on the state we call home.

The Masonic ritual is an elaborate production seen by only a select few. And yet Masons are committed to putting on the best show possible.

Go behind the scenes at a performance of The Spirit of Hiram, a Masonic play put on by the Pasadena Scottish Rite.

Mapping San Francisco’s historic—and current—Masonic meeting places.

Hiding in plain sight on one of the city’s busiest blocks, the Mission Masonic Temple is a living link to the area’s wild and wooly past.

For more than a century, Fidelity No. 120 was home to a robust Jewish membership.

Four San Francisco Masonic landmarks of yesteryear get a new lease on life.

At the French-speaking La Parfaite Union No. 17 Masonic lodge, in San Francisco, a Francophone legacy lives on.

The Prince Hall Apartments, built by the fraternal order during San Francisco’s urban renewal, are a testament to the city’s black history.

With his Jazz Age flair, architect Timothy Pflueger brought a signature style to San Francisco’s skyline.

Throughout San Francisco, street names share subtle reminders of a fraternal past.

The influential artists Arthur and Lucia Mathews once designed the interior of the Grand Lodge Temple. So where’s all their artwork gone?

Groups like the Masons offer a way to strengthen community, combat loneliness, fight polarization, and maybe even save democracy.

The new documentary Join or Die revisits a seminal text of contemporary social theory—and makes a powerful case for connection.

The Masonic funeral rite unites Masons and their loved ones in a shared community of symbolism and fraternity.

What do 100-year-old Masonic banquet menus tell us about the cultural—and epicurean—history of the fraternity?

In Paradise, Table Mountain No. 124 is helping a community move forward.

At Oakland No. 61, a phone-banking effort helped establish the lodge as one of Masonic Outreach Services’ best local partners.

The 2024 Youth Support Award recipients show that when it comes to the Masonic youth orders, you get more than you give.

Across the state, California Masons are reaching out across lodge lines.

Founded in the 1850s and still active today, the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of California is building on a proud history.

At Gat Rizal No. 882 in Menifee, California, a Masonic lodge takes its name—and inspiration—from a national hero of the Philippines.

At Oakland No. 61, two historic East Bay groups dating from the 1800s are teaming up to form a new kind of Masonic lodge.

At Logos No. 861 in San Francisco, handmade, lovingly crafted material culture is part of the very fabric of the lodge.

The political fights of daily life are conspicuously absent from the Masonic lodge. Can those lessons be practiced in the outside world?

When a monument to his grandfather came under newfound scrutiny, Julius Kahn used the opportunity to shine a light on a lesser-known familial legacy: Florence Prag Kahn.

Politics, religion, and money: An expert on “manliness” explains how to discuss these tricky topics.

The Masonic Homes of California evolved from a 19th century widows and orphans home into an innovative apparatus of care and relief.