It gives me great pleasure to announce that we will be launching a new website for Kianawah Lodge very soon.
This will take over from the current blog (www.kianawah-lodge.blogspot.com), and contain all the required information in one centralised place.
I hope that this will allow more visitors to view our site and ultimately give more information to our members through a new members section. I hope that the information contained here has been informative, and hope that the new site provides even greater information than before.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Home
Welcome to the Kianawah Lodge Website.
Please feel free to browse this website for more information about Freemasonry and Kianawah Lodge.
If you're interested in becoming a Freemason, and a member of Kianawah Lodge, then please use the contact form on this website which can be found on the join Freemasonary page.
In the mean time we hope you enjoy the site and find the content of interest.
Please feel free to browse this website for more information about Freemasonry and Kianawah Lodge.
If you're interested in becoming a Freemason, and a member of Kianawah Lodge, then please use the contact form on this website which can be found on the join Freemasonary page.
In the mean time we hope you enjoy the site and find the content of interest.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Information
There seems to be various accounts of how Kianawah Lodge came to exist.
The information that has provided has been taken from some personal thoughts from a foundation member. I'm sure you'll agree that it doesn't get much better than a firsthand account of the events that led to the lodge being formed.
Tuscan Lodge No 235 lead the way for change. Some Past masters had decided to petition for new lodges to be formed. This was possibly due to the amount of times that the Brethren met, twice a month, and possibly that due to a surge in membership that some members thought that to gain office that this would take several years.
Permission was granted, and Pacific Lodge was consecrated on the 21st June 1955, in the Wynnum Masonic Centre.
After much deliberation between the United Grand Lodge of Queensland and the petitioners, it was agreed that "Daughter" lodges could be formed.
As the way was now clear to form daughter lodges, the plans for a new lodge in Wynnum was also well under way.
So on the 7th June 1956 * Kianawah lodge was formed and had 216 Brethren in attendance.
• Kianawah members - 20
Visiting Brethren- 182
Grand Officers - 14
The Grand officers that evening were lead by the Grand Master M.W.Bro. T.G.H Jones and other Grand officers as detailed in the attendance book.
V.W.Bro. John.A.Thompson was the Grand Director of ceremonies
As we are now entering a new period of Freemasonry, we shouldn't forgot our past, whilst looking to the future. It appears that the determination of a few drove the momentum needed to make change happen.
We can only assume that with the will and that same determination that we can drive Freemasonry forward, and more in importantly continue the good work laid down by past Brethren.
* It appears that Kianawah, meaning "near water" was the chosen name for the new lodge after Wor. Bro. Stan Nalder was successful in submitting the name.
The information that has provided has been taken from some personal thoughts from a foundation member. I'm sure you'll agree that it doesn't get much better than a firsthand account of the events that led to the lodge being formed.
Tuscan Lodge No 235 lead the way for change. Some Past masters had decided to petition for new lodges to be formed. This was possibly due to the amount of times that the Brethren met, twice a month, and possibly that due to a surge in membership that some members thought that to gain office that this would take several years.
Permission was granted, and Pacific Lodge was consecrated on the 21st June 1955, in the Wynnum Masonic Centre.
After much deliberation between the United Grand Lodge of Queensland and the petitioners, it was agreed that "Daughter" lodges could be formed.
As the way was now clear to form daughter lodges, the plans for a new lodge in Wynnum was also well under way.
So on the 7th June 1956 * Kianawah lodge was formed and had 216 Brethren in attendance.
• Kianawah members - 20
Visiting Brethren- 182
Grand Officers - 14
The Grand officers that evening were lead by the Grand Master M.W.Bro. T.G.H Jones and other Grand officers as detailed in the attendance book.
V.W.Bro. John.A.Thompson was the Grand Director of ceremonies
As we are now entering a new period of Freemasonry, we shouldn't forgot our past, whilst looking to the future. It appears that the determination of a few drove the momentum needed to make change happen.
We can only assume that with the will and that same determination that we can drive Freemasonry forward, and more in importantly continue the good work laid down by past Brethren.
* It appears that Kianawah, meaning "near water" was the chosen name for the new lodge after Wor. Bro. Stan Nalder was successful in submitting the name.
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