Raleigh York Rite
Royal Arch Chapter
The Capitular Degrees
- Mark Master
- Past Master (Virtual)
- Most Excellent Master
- The Royal Arch
Select Masters Council
The Cryptic Degrees
- Royal Master
- Select Master
- Super Excellent Master
Knight Templar Commandery
The Chivalric Orders
- Order of the Red Cross
- Order of Malta
- Order of the Temple
Blue Lodge Masonry
Symbolic Masonry
- Grand York Rite Links
- Other NC York Rite Bodies
- North Carolina Grand Lodge
- Local Blue Lodges
York Masonry is the oldest and best known of all Masonic Rites. It takes its name from York, England, where the earliest known record of Masonry exists, dating from about A.D. 923. Masonry's first written record is centered around York, the seat of the Ancient York Grand Lodge. In 1813, this Grand Lodge merged with another group called the Modern Grand Lodge, to form the United Grand Lodge of England. This is the basis upon which our present system of Symbolic Lodge Masonry is built. You, as a Master Mason, have received the first three degrees of the York Rite. Having begun your Masonic work in the York Rite, it is natural that you should want to continue with it.
Any Mason in good standing from a Lodge of a recognized jurisdiction may become a York Rite Mason.