3-052-652 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New masonic hall, Koolangsu, Amoy, 1880. 'Some of our readers may possibly be ignorant of the situation, if not of the very existence, of Koolangsu. It is a small island in the harbour of Amoy, one of the five ports thrown open to trade by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. Koolangsu is now chiefly occupied by the private residences of the various officials, merchants, and missionaries, who make up the total foreign community, all business being transacted upon the other side of the water, close to the native city of Amoy. Our Engraving, taken from a photograph by Mr. St. J. H. Edwards, of the American Consulate, shows the new Masonic Hall recently erected to accommodate the members of the "Ionic" and "Corinthian" lodges. It was designed by Mr. W. Danby, of Hong-Kong, and contains a spacious hall of fifty feet in length by twenty-five in breadth. The Worshipful Master of the Ionic Lodge for the present year is Brother Herbert A. Giles, District Grand Senior Warden, Hong-Kong; and of the Corinthian Lodge, Brother W. C. Howard'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.