Freemasons come from all walks of life—from the rich and famous to the everyday man on the street. Masons are men who have joined together to improve themselves through the principles and ceremonies of the fraternity, and the practice of those in their homes, work, and community.

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2024 Concord #307 Officers Installation

We have installed our new officers for the next year on Saturday, December 11, 2023 in our own lodge with the presence of RW John Thomas Hubbell, DDGM for District 1A and many other brothers, family members and visitors. Thanks to all new elected, appointed officers for their dedication to our lodge and wish them good luck in 2024.

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2024 Concord Lodge Officers

Worshipful Master – Worshipful Serdar Senyurt

Senior Warden – Worshipful Steven Willard Banowit

Junior Warden – Brother Dylan Maxwell Phillips

Treasurer – Brother Jeffrey Jack Berkin

Secretary – Right Worshipful James Dwight Baker

Senior Deacon – Brother John Patrick Sherman

Junior Deacon – Brother Venod Vahid Kerns

Chaplain – Brother James Constantine Anagnos

Marshall – Brother Charles Karl Baker

Tiler – Brother Jacob Schindler

Our lodge and our history

Ten Master Masons met at a home in Vienna one might in March 1909, to discuss plans for the formation of a new Lodge. It was ascertained that all present were in accord and in sympathy with the movement and a letter was drafted to Most Worshipful Joseph W. Eggleston, Grand Master of Masons in Virginia requesting a dispensation. The name given at that time was Vienna Lodge.

The Grand Master issued the dispensation on April 20, 1909, and it was presented by the District Deputy Grand Master of Masonic District No. 1, in which District the Lodge was included. The Worshipful Master named in the dispensation was O. F. Jones. At the organizational meeting, an application was received from Brother John Collins, who presented a Grand Lodge “Certificate of Good Standing.” He was duly elected at the May 1909 meeting and thus became the first new member of the Lodge. At the meeting of the Grand Lodge in February 1910, the Worshipful Master requested that the name be changed From Vienna to Concord in view of the fact that there had been concord amongst its members and of the spirit which should continue.

The Grand Lodge concurred and on February 10, 1910, a charter was granted to Concord Lodge No. 307. The District Deputy Grand Master presented the charter on April 15, 1910, and the Lodge was consecrated. Taking part in the ceremony was Right Worshipful Henry Knox Field who later became Grand Master of Masons in Virginia, for whom the Lodge in Alexandria is named, and Worshipful W. C. Shelly, the first Worshipful Master of Columbia Lodge No. 285 in Arlington.

Growth of the Lodge for a number of years was slow. Jurisdiction was limited, reaching halfway to Kemper Lodge in Falls Church to the east, Henry Lodge in Fairfax to the South, and Herndon Lodge in Herndon to the west. In 1917, it became halfway to Sharon Lodge in McLean on the north when that Lodge received its charter. Population of Fairfax County at that time was less than twenty-five thousand.

Concord Lodge has always met in the building at the corner of Church and Mill Streets. Although the streets and buildings around our Lodge has changed over the years, our beliefs and sense of purpose has not. We continue to meet and enjoy each others company regularly as our brothers did nearly a hundred years ago.