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International Masonic Lodge in Havana Cuba suffers partial collapse


Published: Tue November 16, 2004
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Lázaro García | http://www.cubanet.org

A staircase collapsed at the Union Hispanoamericana Masonic lodge in the Havana district of Luyano, and left four lodges that used to meet in the building homeless.

The building, built in 1916, needs urgent repairs which the Masons say
they don’t have the resources for. In the immediate vicinity, 90% of
the buildings are in fair or poor condition, according to official figures.

Four lodges used the two-story building for meetings. “If we were to
add the treasuries of the four, it would still not be enough to repair
the building,” said a Masonic official. “The Great Lodge of Cuba offered
to help with 300 pesos, or about 11 dollars, which would not be enough
to buy two sacks of cement.”

The four lodges are currently looking for alternate places to hold their meetings.



Comments

#1 - On Wed February 28, 2007, Roald Atle Furre wrote:

International Masonic Directory will include these news under Cuba

see: - http://masons.start4all.com

Hope that somebody - will support - RAF

Bergen Noruega


#2 - On Wed February 28, 2007, Publisher (posts: 2479) wrote:

Thanks for your post. For those of you visiting the link. It is a VERY long page and will take time to load. Look for the Cuba heading.


Signature:

This is my signature - get yours in Your Control Panel. Go ahead and add a link to your site. Self promotion is permitted as long as it is beneficial to our community.

#3 - On Mon May 19, 2008, robert culbert wrote:

how can i visit a masonic lodge in cuba ?


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