Renovation of the historical Freemason Lodge initiated

KARACHI: The renovation of a hundred-year old historical Freemason Lodge Building has been initiated. The building is being renovated for the first time after it was constructed during the British rule in World War I.

As a symbol of great history and an important era, the building deserves to be preserved in its original shape. Sources revealed that after the renovation and restoration of the Freemason Lodge Building, the Sindh government is planning to establish the first ever wildlife museum of the province at a government level on the ground floor of the building. They also stated that on the first floor, the government is planning to establish a library to facilitate researchers and wildlife enthusiasts. The history of the Freemason Lodge reveals that the Freemason’s Trust originally built this building before World War I. For the locals, this building always remained a mystery and they use to call it ‘Jadoo Ghar’ or the House of Magic.


Standing adjacent to the Governor House near the Karachi Press Club, the Freemason Lodge is currently used as an office by the Sindh Wildlife Department Conservator.

The Sindh Department of antiquities initiated a project renovate the building. In the first phase of the renovation, the extra plaster and the thick paint layers that were put on the building will be removed. The Sindh Antiquities Department has planned to remove all the additional cemented structures, wooden cabins, rooms and all the small changes that have been made to the structure during the last few decades so as to restore the original shape of the historical building.

A structure made from bamboo poles is seen encasing the building so that laborers can climb up on it and scratch away the many layers of paint and extra plaster that is not part of the original construction. Wild grass and plants that began to grow around and on the base of the building walls has been removed and cleared.