5. All of the Meeting Rooms Have the Same Layout
The Masonic Hall is made up of over a dozen meeting rooms and each has the same layout. There is an altar in the center of the room surrounded by three candles. The candles represent the two wardens and the Master of the lodge. On the east end of the room the elected Master of the lodge sits in the largest chair at the center and is flanked by two officers on either side. The rest of the members line the sides of the room on benches or chairs that match the style of whatever room they are in (the bare wooden chairs in the Colonial Room are the most uncomfortable, but the rest of the rooms have cushioned seats!).
Each room also contains an intricately painted organ and two ornate columns on the west side of the room. When every new mason is initiated he must walk through these columns. The columns represent the Temple of King Solomon, a location that in masonic theory was where freemasonry originated.
