Read the 2025 Fraternity Report

Read more in the 2025 Fraternity Report

The past year marks a turning point for the Masons of California.

For the first time in 60 years, our statewide membership grew by 647 brothers. That growth didn’t happen by accident. It reflects intentional change, stronger lodges, and a renewed commitment to meaningful relationships and purposeful work. Through the Keystone Initiative, our multi-year roadmap, we’re reshaping how we lead, gather, and serve.

In the 2025 Fraternity Report, you’ll see:

🔹 Clearer officer roles, stronger mentorship, and tools like #LodgeCraft reducing routine business so lodges can focus on real #MasonicEducation and conversation

🔹 Eight new lodges constituted in 2025, part of the most active period of lodge creation in a century

🔹 Practical support for halls and finances, from building assessments to simplified accounting and improved dues collection

🔹 #MasonryInAction, from Masonic Outreach Services responding to the Los Angeles wildfires, to expanded eligibility at the Masonic Homes, to new statewide partnerships through the California Masonic Foundation Strong lodges.

Cared-for members. Vibrant communities. Each reinforces the other — and when we invest in all three, Freemasonry thrives. As we enter our 176th year, the 2025 Fraternity Report is both a record of progress and a preview of what’s ahead.

Read more in the 2025 Fraternity Report

 

Explore Masonic landmarks of San Francisco, Past and Present!

California № 1 has met in San Francisco since 1848—but that doesn’t mean it’s stayed put that whole time. In fact, the lodge had at least six different meeting places in just its first half-century.

In our latest online feature, explore historical Masonic landmarks of San Francisco, from the 1860 Grand Lodge Temple at Post and Montgomery to the Moorish Revival Islam Temple, described as an “elaborately eclectic fantasy.”
This is an interactive, time-traveling jaunt through the historic home of California Freemasonry.

Visit: maps.freemason.org/historic-san-francisco