Door with masonic symbols in Turin

Turin is a strange city, mysterious, where good and evil come together, where the measure and balance between forces of nature and men is constantly changing and have been subject of attentions for thousands of years.
The city of Turin is full of strange symbols, esoteric, demons and angels.
In addition to the Devil’s door, we’ve talked about, there is another wooden door very interesting, in via Alfieri 19, on the huge door you can clearly see a number of Masonic symbols as the meter, the compass, the goniometer.
It is said that the building was just built by the Freemasons.

I live a few hundred meters from this building and I could not miss the opportunity to capture this door with some shots.

Freemasonry is an order for the initiated, which in theory is intended to “perfect the individual” or in less selfish and more social to “perfect mankind”.
The name comes from the descendants of Freemasonry by a group of architects, builders, and the legend of Hiram, the architect of the Temple of King Solomon.
In fact, Freemasonry and its members, participating together in a secret association of mutual aid and moral and spiritual evolution.

Posted on May 11, 2011

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