TheGrand Orient of the Netherlands orGrand East of the Netherlands (Dutch:Orde van Vrijmetselaren onder het Grootoosten der Nederlanden) is aMasonicGrand Lodge in the Netherlands. It falls within the mainstream Anglo-American tradition of Freemasonry, being recognized by TheUnited Grand Lodge of England[1] and the 51 Grand Lodges in the United States. In addition to its jurisdiction over nine districts[2] in the Netherlands, it also administers three Lodges in Suriname through the Provincial Grand Lodge of Suriname,[3] three lodges inCuraçao, one inSouth Africa, one inThailand,[4] and through the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Caribbean, three lodges in Aruba and one in St. Maarten.[3] In the Netherlands it claims to have 145 lodges with 5,792 members.[5]
It also runs the Prince Frederick Museum and has an online catalogue available for its library.
It was founded in either 1756[5] or 1757.[6]
The Grand Orient of the Netherlands used to have provincial Grand Lodges under its jurisdiction, including the Grand Lodge of South Africa and the Grand Lodge of the Transvaal.[7] One of the Lodges that was subservient to the Grand Lodge hosted the early legislative assemblies of theCape Colony.[8]
Activefreemasonry existed throughout theDutch East Indies (now:Indonesia). In 1922 a Dutch Provincial Grand Lodge, under the Grand Orient of the Netherlands, at Weltevreden (Batavia) controlled twenty Lodges in the colony: fourteen inJava, three inSumatra and others inMakassar andSalatiga.[9]
Administers the Provincial Grand Lodge of Zimbabwe which has 5 lodges under its jurisdiction, 3 in Harare and one each in Marondera and Bulawayo. The Grand Lodge was formed in 1963 and the first lodge, Zambesia in Bulawayo in 1896.
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