Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, F.A.A.M.

Founded over two hundred years ago in 1811, the Grand Lodge, FAAM, of Washington, D.C. is the governing body of 46 constituent Masonic lodges in Washington, D.C.

Freemasonry is the world's largest and oldest fraternity, and has been an integral part of community life in the United States for over 250 years. Commonly referred to as Masonry, Freemasonry is an initiatic society which seeks to unite men of differing races, beliefs, and backgrounds into a harmonious and productive community through the application of moral values and the practice of benevolence, intellectual development, and mutual respect,

"Freemasonry reaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, quality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust, tyranny, and despotism." - Worshipful Brother Theodore Roosevelt