Earth Globe Masonic Memorial Temple - Montreal, Qc, Canada
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N 45° 29.676 W 073° 34.997
18T E 610693 N 5038872
This Earth Globe is located in Montreal, Qc, Canada.
Waymark Code: WME2ED
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 03/25/2012
Views: 34
This Earth Globe is atop one of the Solomonic column flanking the main entrance of the Masonic Memorial Temple. The other one is occupied by a Moon Globe.
Built to honour the Freemasons who had served and fallen in the First World War, today it is the meeting place and headquarters of the Grand Lodge of Québec.
The Masonic Memorial Temple was designated a national historic site of Canada in 2001 because: it stands as an exceptionally refined example of a late Beaux-Arts Classical building; it is an allegorical representation of Freemasonrys Enlightenment ideas, which used monumental classical architecture to symbolise its moral beliefs.
Le globe terrestre est logé au sommet d'une des colonnes salomoniques de chaque côté de l’entrée principale du Temple Maçonnique. L'autre colonne est occupée par un globe lunaire.
L’édifice, érigé à la mémoire des francs-maçons ayant combattu et péri durant la Première Guerre mondiale, sert aujourd’hui de lieu de rassemblement et de centre administratif à la Grande loge du Québec.
Le Masonic Memorial Temple a été désigné lieu historique national du Canada en 2001 pour les raisons suivantes : il est un exemple exceptionnellement raffiné des bâtiments de la fin du style Beaux-Arts classique; il est une représentation allégorique des idées éclairées de la franc-maçonnerie, qui fait appel à l’architecture classique pour symboliser ses convictions morales.
Stationary or rotating globe: Stationary
Historical or current information: Current
Surface (elevation) relief: no
Size: 1.5 ft
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