The Completion of the Master Mason Degree
Royal Arch Masonry is an important and distinctive part of the York Rite of Freemasonry.
It marks the completion of the Master Mason’s journey and the high point of the original Degrees of the Blue Lodge as they were practiced in the Antients Lodges of England before 1820. The Degree reveals the deeper meaning behind what was lost in the Master Mason Degree and how that knowledge is rediscovered and preserved in the Royal Arch. Historically, the two may even have been conferred as a single, unified ceremony.
Masonry Universal Royal Arch Chapter No. 8
Masonry Universal Royal Arch Chapter No. 8 was Consecrated on 16th November 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Just as its attached Craft Lodge, Masonry Universal Lodge No. 40, it was created to serve the English and non-French speaking communities in and around Geneva, Switzerland.
The Chapter meets on the 5th Monday of any given month of the year, at the Temple in 3 rue Firmin-Massot, 1206 Geneva.