Grand Orient of Belgium

is a Belgian cupola of masonic lodges which is only accessible for men, and works in the basic three symbolic degrees of freemasonry.

This meant that in the 1870s the Orient broke with the United Grand Lodge of England.

In 1921, the Grand Orient of Belgium was a founding and influential member within the International Masonic Association.

During World War II, members of the Grand Orient of Belgium founded the Lodge Liberté chérie in a Nazi concentration camp and the Lodge l'Obstinée in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp.

The GOB has often had a difficult relationship with the Roman Catholic Church (see Catholicism and Freemasonry).