Four other Scottish lodges were chartered in Lebanon before the First World War.
The Grand Orient of France chartered a lodge in 1869, working in Arabic.
By the end of World War Two, these lodges were extinct, merged, or had changed jurisdictional authority.
12 lodges were chartered & consecrated in all, 11 in Lebanon and 1 in Syria.
The one in Syria, Ibrahim El Khalil Lodge No.
4 in Damascus, originally consecrated in 1927, went dormant after the 1967 war.