Lodge orientation (Mackey, An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences, 1874)

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   Orientation. The orientation of a Lodge is its situation due east and west. [...] Although Masonic Lodges are still, when circumstances will permit, built in an east and west direction, the explanation of the usage, contained in the old lectures of the last century, that it was "because all chapels and churches are, or ought to be so," has become obsolete, and other symbolic reasons are assigned. [...]

Mackey, Albert Gallatin, An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences: comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution, Philadelphia: Moss & Company, 1874, p. 555.

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