Toronto Masonic Temple

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Original purpose: Temple
Current purpose: TV studio
Affiliation: Masonic
Open to public: No

Toronto Masonic Temple at 888 Yonge St. is one of the most mysterious buildings in Toronto and one of the few surviving examples of Masonic architecture. It is now occupied by MTV Canada, but until very recently it was home to many prominent Masonic lodges. Unfortunately, due to decline in membership and financial difficulties that many lodges experienced at the end of the past century, the building changed hands a couple of time until purchased by CTV, which decided to let MTV completely take over the building in 2005, when it also was re-dedicated with the help of Grand Lodge of Canada. Since then, the temple was completely renovated and brought up to modern building codes. But the mysteries still remain, such as whether MTV’s logo on the front is coincidentally articulates the letter “M”…

Here is a very detailed article about the history of the building…

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