Masonic Lodge

Antonis Schroiter took a “dive” into the inner sanctum of Greek Freemasonry by getting to know the Tectonians. For the first time, a TV camera went into the Grand Lodge of Greece, which is in the center of Athens, and recorded all of its spaces and talked to people.

A court in the western Romanian city of Timisoara is set to rule in an unusual and unprecedented corruption case involving a former chief of police and a former judge who did not declare their membership of local masonic lodges and allegedly used their connections for their own gain and to cover up crimes.

'Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire: A History of the Fraternity and its Influence in Syria and the Levant' by Dorothe Sommer (IB Tauris, 317 pages, £62)