WELCOME BROTHERS! Welcome to the home of Merritt Island Lodge
No. 353, Free and Accepted Masons (F&AM). Chartered in 1966, Merritt Island Lodge
is located on South Tropical Trail in beautiful Merritt Island, Florida, just south of the Hubert Humphrey Bridge (Rt 520). Merritt Island is
home to the John F. Kennedy Space Center. Kennedy Space Center is the site where man's greatest achievement - to travel to and return from
the moon - began. The Space Shuttles are gone but the legacy continues with an
ever expanding array of new rocket programs. Rocket launches can be
witnessed on occasion from the front porch of the lodge or while relaxing in our Garden of Reflection while enjoying the nice island breeze.
Across the Banana River, only a short drive from the lodge, is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The station is the site where Alan Shephard
and John Glenn blasted off into history. Cocoa Beach is nearby and boasts the nearest and cleanest beaches to the Orlando area.
Merritt
Island Lodge is the center of
The Thundering 17th Masonic District and has a rich tradition of
giving and fellowship. We are one of the most active and diverse lodges in the
District with Brothers as young as 18 and as old as - well, pushing 100 years
young. We all
have something to offer each other and to the Masonic fraternity. We support
numerous organizations such as the
Childrens Hunger Project,
Brevard Hospice,
Azan Shrine Center, the Shrine clubs,
and the American Veterans. We embrace our neighborhood communities with local charity support,
sports team sponsorships and the
Child ID program. It is our honor and privilege to
be a part of building strong community allegiance.
Whether you are a brother of the lodge, a brother of another lodge, a fellow traveler
or interested in what Freemasonry may offer, we invite
you visit with us. Come to any stated meeting or business night (see schedules
below) and enjoy Merritt Island's
hospitality and the company of the brethren. I extend our hospitality to all!
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