_. , ^.^ . THE TEMi^L^. uF SCOTTISH RITE 



ihis splendid edifice, representing the 14c, sets of Masonic bodies and 80,000 members belonging to 

 the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite in America, is modelled after the Mausoleum of Halicar- 

 nassus, located on the coast of Asia- Minor, anc. accounted by the ancients one of the Seven Wonders of 

 the World The Washington temple was buil'! at a cost of ^1,500,000. It contains 33 great Ionic col- 

 umns, each 33 feet high, and the steps which approach its main entrance, starting from the street, are 

 arranged m groupings of i, 3, 5, 7, and 9, sacrei/ numbers of the ancients. The two huge sphinxes which 

 guard the approach were hewn out of great stoiles weighing respectively 109 000 and 1 10,000 pounds, the 

 largest ever quarried in America. John Alvin Pope was the architect. 



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