Publisher's Synopsis
Born in the British Isles at the beginning of the 18th century, modern freemasonry rapidly resorted to discreet meeting places which have hardly been studied within the framework of history and architecture. The construction of a Masonic temple, modest or spectacular, answers to a highly codified symbolic programme which acknowledge the Temple of Salomon as mythical reference and which elaborates itself from a complex ritual inspired from many spiritual currents. From the Egyptian or Assyrian temple to the classical tradition, from the medieval cathedral to modernism, the Lodge offers an exceptionally wide range of references.
