ANCIENT & ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE
SOUTHERN JURISDICTION, USA
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is commonly known as the Scottish Rite. It is one of several appendant groups of the worldwide fraternity known as Freemasonry. The governing body of the Scottish Rite is the Supreme Council. It is comprised of active and deputy members of 35 states and several overseas jurisdictions that make up the Southern Jurisdiction.
Each state or jurisdiction that belongs to the Southern Jurisdiction is called an Orient. The local Scottish Rite body is called a Valley.
Each Valley has up to four Scottish Rite bodies, and each body confers a set of degrees. In the Southern Jurisdiction these are the Lodge of Perfection (4°–14°), Chapter of Rosé Croix (15°–18°), Council of Kadosh (19°–30°), and the Consistory (31°–32°). The Supreme Council confers the 33rd Degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General.
The Scottish Rite is one of the two branches of Freemasonry in which a Master Mason may proceed after he has completed the three degrees of Symbolic or Blue Lodge Masonry. The other branch is known as the York Rite, consisting of Royal Arch Masons, Royal and Select Masters and the Knights Templar.
SCOTTISH RITE LOCATIONS
1733 16th Street N.W.
Washington D.C., 20009
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In the heart of the nation's capital, stands one of the city's most beautiful monuments, the House of the Temple, the headquarters building of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. It is located between R and S Streets at 1733 Sixteenth, St. N.W., Washington, D.C., just one mile directly north from the White House. The building was designed by John Russell Pope (America's foremost neoclassical architect), and patterned after the famed Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was constructed between 1911 and 1915, and is regarded as the finest example of Pope's architectural genius. Other buildings designed by Pope include the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives. In addition to office space, the building includes several museum spaces and a magnificent library.
463 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Commissioned for design in 1909 to architect Myron Hunt of the firm of Hunt & Burns of Los Angeles, was the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple. Construction on the Temple began in 1911 and was completed with a dedication on November 17, 1912. This Moorish (or Moroccan) style structure was inspired by the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, which was the religious and governmental capital of the Moors in Spain. The Scottish Rite Temple is home to the Valley of Santa Fe, Orient of New Mexico, within the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA. It is located at 463 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, N.M., just a few block north of the heart of downtown Santa Fe.
