Grand Orient of Belgium

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The Grand Orient of Belgium (French: Grand Orient de Belgique, Dutch: Grootoosten van Belgie G.O.B.) is a Belgian cupola of masonic lodges which is only accessible for men, and works in the basic three symbolic degrees of freemasonry.

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The Grand Orient of Belgium was founded in 1833, three years after the independence of Belgium.

The Grand Orient joined the Grand Orient of France and other Continental jurisdictions in not requiring initiates to believe in a Supreme Being.

In 1959 five lodges of the Grand Orient of Belgium founded the Grand Lodge of Belgium in order to regain recognition by the United Grand Lodge of England, which had been lost in the 19th century. Recognition was lost again in 1979. In 1989 the Grand Orient of Belgium, the Grand Lodge of Belgium, the Women's Grand Lodge Of Belgium and the Belgian Federation of Le Droit Humain signed an agreement of mutual recognition.