Rising Sun A. F. & A.M. Lodge

Website liveness

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Current site

Rising Sun Masonic Lodge #30 HTTP 200

Rising Sun A. F. & A.M. Lodge HTTP unchecked

Former sites

none recorded

Facebook

none in corpus

Public-web footprint

Rank #108 worldwide · score 80.6 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 23854336-9db5-58ec-940c-adb80f4b7de7

Number

30

Status

active

Grand Lodge

Grand Lodge of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, F. & A.M.

Opened

unknown

Closed

unknown

Successor

unknown

Meetings

unknown

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Rising Sun A. F. & A.M. Lodge No. 30 listed under Grand Lodge of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, F. & A.M. as active at 222 Taunton Avenue, East Providence, RI, 02916 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

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