Where is the Swedish Rite worked?
The Swedish Rite is worked by the Grand Lodge of Sweden (with several lodges in Finland), the Grand Lodge of Iceland, the Grand Lodge of Norway and the National Grand Lodge of Denmark. The Grand Lodge of Finland, founded in the 1920s with a charter from the Grand Lodge of New York, today is a totally independent Grand Lodge. It works the three degrees of Craft Freemasonry, translated, depending on the lodge, into either Finnish, English or German. Several lodges under this Grand Lodge work with a Swedish translation of the Finnish (New York) ritual, which should not be confused with the Swedish Rite. The Grosse Landesloge der Freimaurer von Deutschland (one of five recognized by the United Grand Lodges of Germany) works ritual based on Eckleff’s writings after 1760, but otherwise bears no similarity to the Swedish Rite.
