Scottish Rite Cathedral (St
Scottish Rite Cathedral and Scottish Rite Temple are names commonly applied to buildings used by Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, a body associated with Freemasonry. It may refer to any of a number of specific buildings, including: ;in the United States (by state then town or city) *The Temple Downtown, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as Scottish Rite Temple, in Mobile County, Alabama *Scottish Rite Cathedral (Tucson, Arizona), listed on the NRHP in Pima County, Arizona * Scottish Rite Cathedral (Long Beach, California), Long Beach Historic Landmark * Scottish Rite Cathedral (Pasadena, California), deemed NRHP-eligible but not listed * Scottish Rite Masonic Center (San Francisco, California) * Scottish Rite Masonic Temple (Los Angeles), California * Scottish Rite Cathedral (Moline, Illinois) * Scottish Rite Cathedral (Peoria, Illinois) * Scottish Rite Cathedral (Indianapolis, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Marion County, Indiana * Scottish Rite ...
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Scottish Rite
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in the United States often omits the ''and'', while the English Constitution in the United Kingdom omits the ''Scottish''), commonly known as simply the Scottish Rite (or, in England and Australia, as the Rose Croix although this is only one of its degrees), is one of several Rites of Freemasonry. A Rite is a progressive series of degrees conferred by various Masonic organizations or bodies, each of which operates under the control of its own central authority. In the Scottish Rite the central authority is called a Supreme Council. The Scottish Rite is one of the appendant bodies of Freemasonry that a Master Mason may join for further exposure to the principles of Freemasonry. It is also concordant, in that some of its degrees relate to the degrees of Symbolic (Craft) Freemasonry. In England and some other countries, while the Scottish Rite is not accorded official recognition by the Grand ...
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