The Regional Centre for Franc Masonic Studies Paris – Bucharest together with The Grand National Lodge of Romania organised and opened a Masonic Museum, a Shop and a Library.
Masonic Museum is an achievement of great success because it reveals for the first time masonic items and documents from the inter-war period to nowadays that have been used to Great Union Act – sealing forever the Romanian unity – with one country, one faith and one Leader.
Masonic Museum joins the Masonic collections from our country, for example the Masonic collection of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, Masonic collection of The Grand Master Sadoveanu, Masonic collections of the Romanian Academy Library, The National History Museums from Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca – the Masonic collection of the Grand Orient of Romania.
It is know that Vaida the prince with all members of the delegation who attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 – have been initiated into the Worshipful Lodge “Ernest Renan” under the Grand Orient of France.
Hereby the Romanian diplomacy was close to major foreign chanceries to pursue national interests.
Here it is the contribution of the Grand Orient and not someone else to the beneficial changes that Romania has passed.
In the future the Regional Centre for Franc Masonic Studies Paris Bucharest intends to organize large-scale Masonic exhibitions, open to all Romanians, so that we understand better our history.
We host in May the largest masonic event since 1989, named the works of the Coordinating Council AMMLA – The Association of Masonic Museums, Libraries and Archives based in Brussels – virtually the entire globe.
The Regional Centre for Franc Masonic Studies Paris Bucharest organizes two Masonic exhibitions with the support of the Romanian Academy and the National History Museum of Romania, which will present documents, items belonging to above institutions and to other museums and libraries from our country, which the Regional Center has identified over the years.
It is an opportunity for us to show AMMLA members, Masonic personalities, that Romania has a history, a Masonic tradition for several hundred years ago, that we are a Christian people, who occupied the legitimate place in the world.

The store exposes this kind of items:

-Masonic books and magazines from our country and from abroad.
-Masonic supplies of precious metal, stone, fabric, crystal, wood
-Masonic aprons, gloves, collars, bow ties, ties, etc.., from 1°-33° in Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
-lodge furniture and accessories
-Masonic jewels

For further information please dial 0740.701.915 or mail cuvant_masonic@yahoo.com

Dictionary of Masonic Terminology

-Freemasonry is an initiatic society, with a traditional form, composed of lodges and obediences
-Lodge is the basic unit of Freemasonry
-Lodge is autonomous and sovereign
-Obedience is the administrative body in charge of Masonry that brings together several lodges of a State or a several states
-Obedience are called Grand Lodges or the Great Orients
- An obedience is leaded by a Grand Master and a Grand Council, democratically elected following a Convent of representatives of all lodges.
-During the lodge works are present the Masonic symbols: the Sacred Book of the Law, The Square and Compass, the national flag and the coat of arms of the lodge.
-The place where lodge meetings are held is called Temple
-Within the lodges can only get three degrees: degree 1 (entered apprentice), grade 2 (companion or fellow craft) and grade 3 (master mason)
- From the degree of a Master, brothers may rise to other degrees in practicing one of Masonic rites. For example the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite includes the degrees from the 4 to the 33.

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