# Strange diamond symbol made of two arches?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 17, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739 "2012-08-17T02:20:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/1 "2012-08-17T02:20:54Z")
There is a building near me that is abandoned and half collapsed, it however has a large faded symbol or logo above the front door that looks like two triangle arches one upside down forming a diamond shape. The top triangle arch looks like it could be calipers or a compass?
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/2 "2012-08-17T02:24:30Z")
Does it look like [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Square_compasses.svg)?
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### Author:  [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/3 "2012-08-17T02:24:50Z")
What if I told you it was the symbol of a world-wide secret society?
([Freemasonry - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry))
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### Author:  [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/4 "2012-08-17T02:35:41Z")
That is it, I don’t think it had the G though. Now I feel kinda stupid for not knowing it was the Freemason symbol.
I guess they didn’t take in Trinidad.
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/5 "2012-08-17T02:50:06Z")
> [@grude](#):
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> That is it, I don’t think it had the G though.
It looks like [the “G” is not always included](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_and_Compasses). (I guess those are the Godless Heathen Lodges.)
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### Author:  [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/6 "2012-08-17T02:56:06Z")
And in the interest of correcting ignorance they did take, but I guess they have moved at least once.
[http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,75961.html](http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,75961.html)
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> The local body is responsible for running the affairs of 13 Masonic Lodges in Trinidad, Tobago and Grenada, under the framework set out by the Scottish Grand Lodge.
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/7 "2012-08-17T03:35:48Z")
We have one nearby. There’s a Circle-K with a stairs up the side…up those stairs is the ‘lodge’, I guess, of the society. Just kinda cracks me up.
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### Author:  [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/8 "2012-08-17T06:18:42Z")
Even weirder is that I see in various cities, the buildings that still say “Oddfellows Hall” or something. At least Masons sounds active and cool by comparison.
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### Author:  [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/9 "2012-08-17T06:39:27Z")
You wouldn’t rather be an admitted Odd Fellow than a member of an organization named for contractors? 😕
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### Author:  [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/10 "2012-08-17T09:47:35Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#):
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> It looks like [the “G” is not always included](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_and_Compasses). (I guess those are the Godless Heathen Lodges.)
Except I’m pretty sure the “G” doesn’t stand for “God”, but for “Geometry”.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/11 "2012-08-17T10:02:46Z")
… or “Goat.”
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/12 "2012-08-17T12:48:59Z")
> [@JLRogers](#):
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> You wouldn’t rather be an admitted Odd Fellow than a member of an organization named for contractors? 😕
But Ben Franklin does their radio spots!
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### Author:  [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/13 "2012-08-17T16:31:42Z")
> [@Taomist](#):
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> We have one nearby. There’s a Circle-K with a stairs up the side…up those stairs is the ‘lodge’, I guess, of the society. Just kinda cracks me up.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K…[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DsFMJQHbMs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DsFMJQHbMs)
😃
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/14 "2012-08-17T16:55:37Z")
> [@Steken](#):
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> Except I’m pretty sure the “G” doesn’t stand for “God”, but for “Geometry”.
Not the “Great Architect”?
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/15 "2012-08-17T17:40:46Z")
> [@Steken](#):
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> Except I’m pretty sure the “G” doesn’t stand for “God”, but for “Geometry”.
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> … or “Goat.”
We may never truly know what the [G](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_G._Sanford) stood for.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/16 "2012-08-17T21:26:14Z")
> [@JLRogers](#):
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> You wouldn’t rather be an admitted Odd Fellow
I’m an _admittedly_ odd fellow.
Not quite the same thing, I know.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-diamond-symbol-made-of-two-arches/631739/17 "2012-08-17T21:44:11Z")
I used to be a member of a Masonic youth organization. I was told the G stood for “Guild”.