Masonic Lodges

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List of Masonic Lodges in India 1860

Lodges with the * prefixed have Chapters attached.

Freemason Bombay Lodge

UNDER GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND.

No	LODGES LOCATION	TIME OF MEETING
80	Star in the East, Calcutta, Bengal.
94	Stewards', Freemasons' Hall, Madras.
126*	Industry & Perseverance,Calcutta, Bengal.
175*	Perfect Unanimity, Madras.
242	Rising Sun, Fort Marlborough.
265	True Friendship, Calcutta, Bengal.
279	Humility with Fortitude, Fort William, Calcutta.
282	Marine, Calcutta, Bengal.
284	Anchor and Hope, Calcutta, Bengal.
293	Neptune, Prince of Wales's Island.
825*	Rock, Trichinopoly, Madras.
826*	Social Friendship, Madras.
840*	Universal Charity, Madras.
480	Benevolent, Bombay.
532	Hope, Ahmednugger, Bombay.
646*	Perseverance, Bombay.
650	Independence with Philanthropy, Bengal.
551*	Courage with Humanity, Calcutta, Bengal.
596*	Hope, Meerut, Bengal.	2d Friday.
698	Orion in the West, Bombay Artillery, Bombay.
609	True Brothers, Dinapore, Bengal.	1st & 3d Weds.
619	Oriental Star, Cannanore, Malabar.
622	Neilghcrry, Ootacamund, Madras.
628*	St. John's, Secunderabad, Madras.
634	Social & Military Virtues.Madras.
636	Universal Charity, Madras.
636	Honour & Humanity, Madras.
637	Military & Social Friendship, Madras.
638	Taprobane, Madras.
689	Corinthian, Madras.
641*	Harmony, Cawnpore, Bengal.
664	Doric, Kamptee, Madras.
665	St. John's, Kandy, Ceylon.
673*	Himalayan Brotherhood,Simla, Bengal.
684	Goodwill, Bellary, Madras.
685	Armenia, Madras.
710	Bangalore Cantonment, Bangalore, Madras.
715	St. John's, Calcutta.	2d & 4th Fridays.
718	St. Helena, St. Helena.
784	St. Andrew's, Kamptee, Madras.
740	Kilwinning in the East, Calcutta, Bengal.
748*	Zetland in the East, Singapore.	Last Monday.
761*	Star of Hope, Agra, Bengal.	First Wednesday.
794	Philanthropy, Maulmain.	1st & 3d Weds.
807	St. George's, Bombay.
810	Morning Star, Lucknow, Bengal.	2d & 4th Weds.
828*	Charity, Umballa, Bengal.
831*	Pilgrims of Light, Mount-road, near Madras.	4th Saturday.
846	Neptune,Georgetown, Prince of Wales's Island.	3d Thursday.
852*	Kyber, Peshawur, Bengal.
897	Star of Burmah, Rangoon, Bengal.	1st & 3d Thursdays.
906	Jullunder, Jullunder, Bengal.	1st Wednesday.
922*	Dalhousie of Mussoorie and Deyrah, Mussoorie, Bengal.	2d & 4th Tuesdays.
925	Fidelity, Darjeeling, Bengal.	1st & 3d Thursdays.
929	Am kan, Akyab, Bengal.	3d Monday.
972	Astrea, Thayetmys Pegu, Bengal	2d Wednesday.
978	Ramsey, Rawul Pinde, Bengal.	1st Monday.
974	Light of tbe North, Ferozepore, Bengal.	1st & 3d Weds.
984	Trinne Brotherhood, Subathoo, Bengal.	3d Wednesday.
1038	British, Port Louis, Mauritius.	1st Wednesday.
1042	Fidelity, Singapore.	Last Monday.
1058	Good Hope,Dacca, Bengal.	1st & 3d Weds.
1059	Concord, Bombay.	3d Saturday.
1069	Union, Kurrachee, Bombay.
1084	Hope and Perseverance, Lahore, Bengal.	1st & 3d Mondays.

UNDER GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND.

No	LODGES LOCATION	TIME OF MEETING
342	Rising Star, Western India.
343	St. Andrew's in the East, Poonah.
350	Hope, Kurrachce.
351	Perseverance, Bombay.
871	St. David's in the East, Calcutta, Bengal.	1st & 3rd Tuesdays.
389	St. Paul's, Mhow, Bengal, India.

FIBIS resources

• Freemasons FIBIS database
• Masonic Images FIBIS Gallery
• FIBIS Journals no 20 contains excellent article Freemasonry in India by Susan Snell

Abbreviations

• PM stands for Past Master (of a lodge).
• PDGSB stands for Past Deputy Grand Sword Bearer (a ceremonial office in Grand Lodge).

External Links

• The Library and Museum of Freemasonry (United Grand Lodge of England) includes major English Masonic publications online and Library catalogue Searches of records can be ordered.
• There is a searchable name database of United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 on subscription website ancestry.co.uk
• Freemasonry Comes To India, now archived from The Grand Lodge of AF and AM of India, now archived.
• Freemasonry, mainly in India during the Governor-Generalship of Lord Moira by Roger Houghton
• Freemasonry in Madras Lodge Prudentia No. 369 GLI, now archived.
• Masons remember ¬ Madras connections Madras Musings Vol. XX No. 13, October 16-31, 2011
• History of Scottish Freemasonry in India:1838 – 2001 from District Grand Lodge of India under Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland. Includes Freemasonry in Bombay.
• 1979 Prestonian Lecture: 250 Years of Masonry in India by G.E. Walker. Scroll down to page 82, (total c 300 pages, the numbers are generally at the left hand side of the webpage) phoenixmasonry.org, now an archived webpage.
• "260 years of Irish Freemasonry in India, 1754-2014" by V. W. Bro. Aniruddha Pradhan. Paper presented at Mumbai 2014. Pdf download also available. Another html version
• Khyber Lodge No.582 EC, Peshawar Khyberlodge.co.uk, now archived.
• The Himalayan Brotherhood Lodge No. 459 Simla. masonicmedals.net
• Freemasons including Himalayan Brotherhood from British India Family History (valmayukuk.tripod.com)
• Rudyard Kipling and his masonic career freemasons-freemasonry.com
• Rudyard Kipling Freemason freemasonry.bcy.ca
• Amir Habibullah Khan: Afghan Reformer and Freemason (National Heritage Museum) became a Mason in India in 1907
• A lost copy of the Francken manuscript found in Lahore Pakistan freemasons-freemasonry.com

Historical books online

• The early history of Freemasonry in Bengal and the Punjab; with which is incorporated "The early history of Freemasonry in Bengal" by Andrew D'Cruz by Walter Kelly Firminger (1906) Archive.org
• A history of Freemasonry (under the English constitution) on the Coast of Coromandel : together with histories of the old Madras lodges which were founded before the union : together with appendices and a map by Rev C H Malden (1895) Archive.org
• History of Lodge "St. George" of Bombay, No. 549 on the Registry of the United Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of England by Bro. Isaac M. Shields 1898 Archive.org
• History of Freemasonry in Hyderabad (Deccan) by J. D. B. Gribble 1910 Archive.org
• "Stewart" Lodge, No. 1960, E.C., holding at Rawal Pindi and Murree, under the district Grand Lodge of the Punjab. Address by the Worshipful Master (Wor. Bro. C.H. Blackburn) on the working of the Lodge for the year 1896 1897 Archive.org
  • List of members to 31 December 1896
• History of Lodge Rising Star of Western India No 342 by D F Wadia 1912. Archive.org.