Recognised as Freemasons, they belong to Freemasonry, an old fraternity that is mentioned to trace its origin to King Solomon’s moments. It owes its origin in the late 16th to 17th century in Scotland and England, and arrived to India by means of the East India Company in the early 18th century.

The Freemason’s Hall, also referred to as Masonic Lodge or Masonic Temple, in Delhi is positioned on a sprawling campus on Janpath (before Queensway), in close proximity to the legendary Connaught Place. The approximately 90-12 months-previous house is owned by the Masonic Fraternity of New Delhi, a non-profit organisation.

The foundation of the grand creating was laid on April 4, 1935 by the then Viceroy of India Lord Willingdon, shortly immediately after the new funds was developed by legendary architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker.

On the other hand, the iconic double-storey masonic corridor, embedded with arcane symbolism, in the coronary heart of the nationwide money was developed neither by Lutyens or Baker or even Robert Torr Russell, who designed the Connaught Area — named immediately after the Duke of Connaught, who was also a Mason.

The hanging creating, whose interior chambers home a grand masonic temple on the very first floor, where by associates of the fraternity in shining regalia have been collecting considering the fact that the 1930s to perform elaborate and arcane rituals involving a checkered-board ground and a ‘Grand Master’, was intended by architect F B Blomfield, who was also a Freemason.

It was opened in February 24, 1936 by the then Maharaja of Patiala, according to a quantity ‘Freemasonry in India’, published in 1991. Panels symbolizing sun and moon, which stand for enlightenment in the Freemasonry, flank the dominant masonic symbol of Sq. and Compass on leading of its facade.

Blomfield’s black and white portrait photograph, exhibiting him in masonic regalia is proudly hung in the entrance foyer of the Corridor, that…