e/Scottish Rite Temple (Mobile, Alabama)

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has glosseng: The Scottish Rite Temple is a historic building in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was completed in 1921 to serve as the meeting place for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The building was designed by George Bigelow Rogers, a local Mobile architect who also designed the Bellingrath Home and the Mobile Public Library. The Scottish Rite Temple is the only intact example of the Egyptian Revival style that remains in the city. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1984. The building itself is in the form of an Egyptian pylon. The monumental entrance, inspired by the Bab al-Amara Gate at Karnak, is flanked by a pair of sphinxes, by the sculptor Allen W. Barr. The roof is surmounted by two protruding obelisks that originally functioned as chimneys.
lexicalizationeng: Scottish Rite Temple
instance of(noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
building, edifice

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