- Title:
- Medal commemorating Lodge Testvériség, Arad East, Hungary.
- Object name(s):
- Metal; Medal, Hungary
- Brief description:
- Gold coloured metal medal with hanging hole. On the obverse central to the design is a relief set square and compass overlaid with clasped hands. Encircling the central design in a border is relief text reading 'TESTVÉRISÉG PÁHOLY ARAD KELETÉN'. At the bottom and between the text is a relief six-pointed star. On the reverse central to the design is a relief set square and compass overlaid with clasped hands. Encircling the central design in a border is relief text reading 'FRATERNITAS, BRÜDERLICHKEIT OR ∴ ARAD □'.
- Collection:
- Museum of Freemasonry
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Associated concept:
- Medals Freemasonry Hungary
- Comments:
- A National Grand Lodge of Austrian States was formed in 1784 which presided over Provincial Grand Lodges, including Hungary. However, in 1867 Austria and Hungary became separate countries and freemasonry in Hungary flourished. Initially seven lodges were formed through the Grand Lodge of the Sun, Bayreuth, Germany. By 1870 the National Grand Lodge of Hungary was formed and by 1872 a Grand Orient was also formed by the Grand Orient of France. In order to unite under a single authority the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Hungary was formed in 1886, which absorbed responsibility of the National Grand Lodge and Grand Orient.
- Comments:
- The Hungarian text 'TESTVÉRISÉG PÁHOLY ARAD KELETÉN' translates as 'Lodge Testvériség, Arad East'.
- Comments:
- The Hungarian text 'FRATERNITAS, BRÜDERLICHKEIT OR ∴ ARAD □' translates as 'Fraternity, Brotherhood, Orient of Arad'.
- Comments:
- The cataloguing of the medal collection at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry was supported by a grant from Arts Council England in 2013.
- Content - description:
- Set squares and compasses, Clasped hands, Six-pointed star
- Dimension:
- H: 45 W: 41 D: 4 Dia: n/a Wt: n/a
- Entry date:
- n/k
- Object name:
- Metal; Medal, Hungary
- Object number:
- M2013/706
- Object production date:
- n/k
- Object production place:
- Hungary
- Reproduction format:
- Digital image
- Technique:
- Struck metal
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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