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Union Lodge of Strict Observance No. 3 Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Michigan |
| Photos of the Detroit Masonic Temple |
| Romanesque Lodge Room | |
| Greek Ionic Lodge Room | |
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| This sculpture in stone above the entrance of the Detroit Masonic Temple depicts the Entered Apprentice Mason working to perfect a "rough ashlar," a stone as taken from the quarry in its rude and natural state. It is symbolic of the young Mason's efforts to improve his own character. | |
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| This sculpture depicts the Master Mason, who after many years of work, has transformed himself from the "rough ashlar" to a "perfect ashlar," fitted for use in that spiritual building, that house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. The Master Mason has experienced a process of moral, intellectual and spiritual development. In this depiction, he may be seen as a connecting link between the divine and the earthly realms-- he looks upward, symbolically, to the heavens while the lower animals, sensing the harmony he has attained, are attracted to, and look upward to him. | |