The Grand Lodge of West Virginia is one of two bodies that govern Freemasonry in the state of West Virginia[1] (the other being the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of West Virginia).[2] It oversees around 140 local lodges,[3] and supervises the West Virginia Masonic Home in Parkersburg, West Virginia.[4]
It is one of ten Grand Lodges in the U.S. that does not recognize Prince Hall (African American) Masonic Lodges and in 2008 was reported as having no black members,[5] and these policies have been invoked as a reason for a lawsuit from a former grand master Frank J Haas.[6]
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