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| Location: | Jerusalem, at the Damascus Gate. |
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| 13-MAY-1868 | first recorded Masonic ceremony in Israel held in the Cave of Zedekiah. |
Beneath the north wall of the Old City of Jerusalem, close to the Damascus Gate, is a cave opening leading to huge subterranean limestone quarries. This is the place were the rocks for King Solomon's Temple originate from. The quarries extend north from the Temple area to the hill on which Jesus Christ was crucified.
From the entrance, the main path leads south for nearly 225m untill it reaches the main chamber called The Freemasons Hall. From this hall a tunnel leads east to the dripping spring and the lowest place of the cave. The underground quarry explains what is written in the Bible: no sound of metallic tools was heard at the building site of the Temple. If the stones were dressed underground, no noise would have reached the Temple site.
Obviously this site has close connections to masonry, as it produced the stones of one of the most important buildings of mankind. This might have been a reason for Dr. Robert Morris, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, to direct a Secret Monitor Ceremony in the Cave of Zedekiah. He was a lawyer and educator from Boston, Massachusetts. This is the simple reason why the main chamber is called The Freemasons Hall.
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