The District Grand Lodge of Madras is the administrative and controlling body of Freemasons lodge’s under the UGLE functioning in the States of Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala collectively referred to as the District of Madras for Masonic purposes.
Freemasonry has existed on the Coromandel Coast for more than 250 years the first Lodge having been consecrated in Madras in 1752.
The oldest Lodge of this Masonic District still working here is the Lodge of Perfect Unanimity No.150 which was consecrated in 1786 and celebrated its bicentenary in 1986.