Visiting Bermuda as a Masonic Traveler
Hamilton, Bermuda's capital, is the center of all Masonic activity on the island. Atlantic Phoenix Lodge No. 224 meets at Freemasons' Hall in Hamilton, which also serves as the administrative home of the District Grand Lodge. Bermuda's small geographic scale (the entire island is roughly 21 square miles) means that all lodges are within easy reach of any accommodation on the island.
Visiting Masons should contact the District Grand Lodge of Bermuda in advance, as most Bermudian lodges are at recess during July, August, and September. Both English and Scottish Constitution lodges operate on the island and both welcome visiting Masons from UGLE-recognized jurisdictions. Atlantic Phoenix Lodge No. 224, given its great age and the pride its members take in its history, is particularly worth contacting for a visit when a Brother is in Bermuda during lodge season.
Bermuda's Masonic temples (particularly Freemasons' Hall in Hamilton) are architecturally interesting and set against the island's distinctive pastel colonial buildings. Masons visiting for non-Masonic purposes will find the lodges accessible and the visiting culture genuinely warm.
Hamilton (Bermuda's capital and the location of the District Grand Lodge offices) is the center of Masonic activity on the island. The city's well-preserved Victorian streetscape and the surrounding parishes with their characteristic pastel-colored cottages and pink-sand beaches make Bermuda one of the most distinctive destinations in the Atlantic world.
The Royal Naval Dockyard at the western end of Bermuda (built by the British Navy between 1809 and 1863 using convict and slave labor) is now a heritage attraction that documents the Royal Navy's presence in Bermuda, within which military lodge activity was an ongoing part of island life through the nineteenth century. The Bermuda National Museum at the Dockyard holds the island's most significant historical collections. The Commissioner's House, completed in 1823 and the oldest cast-iron building in the Western Hemisphere, is among the architectural landmarks of the Dockyard complex. Visiting Masons should contact the District Grand Lodge of Bermuda for current lodge information and visiting protocols.
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