Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia - GWMNMA

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Grand Lodge of the Month for August 2023 Most Worshipful Brother Annas Fadludeen Kamara, Grand Master The Grand Lodge of D.C. is one of the Memorial’s Supporting Grand Lodges. In 1811, representatives of five Masonic lodges operating in the District of Columbia (four from Maryland, one from Virginia) met in convention to form their own governing body, the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia. Once the new Grand Lodge was constituted, the five lodges reorganized under new charters as Federal № 1, Alexandria-Brook № 2, Columbia № 3, Naval № 4, and Potomac № 5. In its early years, the Grand Lodge convened in a Masonic Hall constructed by Federal and Columbia lodges, and by the end of their first decade, membership in the fraternity totaled 250 members. On November 9, 1848, a petition was submitted by several D.C. members who had traveled to