Freemasonry in Grenada
Grenada's documented Masonic history extends to at least 1764, placing it among the older Masonic communities in the Eastern Caribbean. The island's colonial history (passing from French to British sovereignty in 1763) created conditions in which both French and British Masonic influence were felt during the eighteenth century. English Constitution Masonry took hold in the colonial era, and Grenada's significance in the regional Masonic structure was formalized on October 28, 1826, when the United Grand Lodge of England established a Provincial Grand Lodge of Grenada to govern lodges on Grenada, Tobago, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. This made Grenada the administrative center for English Freemasonry across four islands of the southern Eastern Caribbean — a historically important milestone.
Today Grenada operates under two separate regular Masonic constitutions in fraternal amity. English Constitution lodges are governed by the District Grand Lodge of Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. Scottish Constitution lodges fall under the District Grand Lodge of Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada — a body whose name was updated in 2008 to formally recognize Grenada's inclusion, reflecting the importance of Lodge St. Andrew No. 1794 SC, which reintroduced Scottish Freemasonry to the island in 1992 after a 96-year absence. No PHA grand lodge operates in Grenada; the conditions that produced Prince Hall grand lodges in North America did not develop in Grenada's Masonic history.
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