About Meridian Lodge

A Lodge of Pittsfield since 1865.

Meridian Lodge No. 125, A.F. & A.M., is a constituent Lodge of the Grand Lodge of Maine. District to be confirmed.

Peace Day (Armistice) ceremonies, Pittsfield, Maine, 11 November 1918. Photo: Harry Brown. National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Cropped from the archival record card..

1865Chartered 3 May (document pending)

No. 125Grand Lodge of Maine

TBCMasonic district

PittsfieldSomerset County

Who we are

Friendship, learning and service.

Freemasonry is a fraternal organization. In Maine, local Lodges such as Meridian work under the Grand Lodge of Maine.

Background: Grand Lodge of Maine: How to become a Mason (FAQ) (opens external site).

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Our tenets

What we stand for.

Brotherly Love

Friendship that crosses every line of age, work and background.

Relief

Care for one another, and for the community we live in.

Truth

A lifelong habit of learning, reflection and honest living.

These are the tenets of Freemasonry, as presented in Maine’s Handbook for Masons (opens external site) (“Our Masonic Tenets”).

History

Timeline

Only dated, sourced entries are shown. The Lodge’s own records will add more.

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3 May 1865Chartered by the Grand Lodge of Maine (charter document pending) (GL Maine connect listing (opens external site); also stated in MCI, 2017 (opens external site))
1866Maine Central Institute is founded, one year after the Lodge (MCI, 2017 (opens external site))
March 2017The Lodge gives $100,000 to MCI's Founders Campaign, which names the Choral and Piano Center (MCI (opens external site))
To be confirmedBuilding history, notable Lodge milestones and archive items will be added once the Lodge supplies them with citations.

Context

Freemasonry in Maine

Masonic halls elsewhere in Maine. These are not Meridian Lodge or its building.

Masonic hall in West Buxton, Maine, in 2019 — Masonic hall, West Buxton, Maine, 2019. Photo: John Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped; adapted image shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masonic Temple in Portland, Maine, in 2013 — Masonic Temple, Portland, Maine, 2013. Photo: John Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized image shared under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Exterior of a Masonic lodge building in Thorndike, Maine (not Meridian Lodge) — A Masonic lodge building in Thorndike, Maine, 2022; not Meridian Lodge. Photo: Magicpiano, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized image shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Leadership

Lodge officers

Officers are shown by title. Names will appear only once the Lodge approves them for publication.

Worshipful Master

Presides over the Lodge.

Secretary

Keeps the Lodge's records and correspondence.

Treasurer

Looks after the Lodge's finances.