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The Athelstan Club
The Athelstan Club, formerly ''The Athelstan Masonic Temple,'' is a private gentlemen's club in Mobile, Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, US, founded in 1873, tracing its roots to a Masonic lodge established in 1870. By 1875 it had loosened membership to non-Masons and in 1876 formerly became ''The Athelstan Club.'' It admittedly admitted its first African American Member in 2011. The Athelstan Club is the eighth-oldest gentlemen's club, gentlemen's city club in the Southern United States, after The Oglethorpe Club (1870) and before Knights of Momus, The Louisiana Club (1877), offering the facilities of a traditional gentlemen's city clubregular hours, paid staff, a bar, a dining room, lodging roomsthat are associated with the English model of city clubs in the St. James's district of London. It is the oldest remaining gentlemen's club in Mobile after The Manassas Club closed prior to The Great Depression. History Domino Ball - Double Rush The Athelstan Club's signature Mardi Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masonic Temple
A Masonic Temple or Masonic Hall is, within Freemasonry, the room or edifice where a Masonic Lodge meets. Masonic Temple may also refer to an abstract spiritual goal and the conceptual ritualistic space of a meeting. Development and history In the early years of Freemasonry, from the 17th through the 18th centuries, it was most common for Masonic Lodges to form their Masonic Temples either in private homes or in the private rooms of public taverns or halls which could be regularly rented out for Masonic purposes. This was less than ideal, however; meeting in public spaces required the transportation, set-up and dismantling of increasingly elaborate paraphernalia every time the lodge met. Lodges began to look for permanent facilities, dedicated purely to Masonic use. First Temples The first Masonic Hall was built in 1765 in Marseille, France. A decade later in May, 1775, the cornerstone of what would come to be known as Freemasons' Hall, London, was laid in solemn ceremonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
