Scottish Rite Temple (Mobile, Alabama)

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caption =Scottish Rite Temple from the corner of N. Claiborne and St. Francis Streets.
location=351 St. Francis Street Mobile, Alabama
lat_degrees = 30
lat_minutes = 41
lat_seconds = 28.51
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 88
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 46.07
long_direction = W
locmapin = Alabama
area =
built =1921
architect= Rogers, George B.
architecture= Egyptian Revival
added = January 05, 1984cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-03-07|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=84000694

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.cite web|title="Dauphin Street Virtual Walking Tour"|work="Main Street Mobile"|url=http://www.mainstreetmobile.org/html/guide/walking.html| accessdate=2008-03-07] It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 05, 1984.

The building features several forms seen in Ancient Egyptian architecture. The building itself is in the form of an Egyptian pylon. The monumental entrance is flanked by a pair of sphinxes, by the sculptor Allen W. Barr.cite web|title="Art Inventories Catalog"|work="Smithsonian Institution Research Information System"|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/|accessdate=2008-03-07] The roof is surmounted by two partial obelisks that originally functioned as chimneys.

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Mobile County, Alabama

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