Templars of Honor and Temperance

Founded as the Marshall Temperance Fraternity, the Templars organized as a result of a schism within the older Sons of Temperance, when some felt that the organization did not have an elaborated enough ritual.

In 1846, the National Temple of the Templars of Honor and Temperance of the United States was instituted in New York.

[1] The society has a secret ritual which was based on the medieval Knights Templar, the story of Damon and Pythias as well as Jonathan and David.

[2] As a secret society and fraternal organization, it has signs, hand grips, passwords and emblems.

The organization is active in Scandinavia, where it is known as Tempel Riddare Orden ("The Order of the Knight Templars").