U.S. Lodges that use Languages other than English
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The following lodges are chartered by “mainstream” Grand Lodge in the United States, and are permitted to, and do, use languages other than English in their ritual (opening and closing, degrees, programs, business, etc.).
| Arizona | Anahuac Lodge #81 – Tucson – Spanish |
| California | La Parfaite Union Lodge #17 – San Francisco – French Vallée de France Lodge #329 – Los Angeles – French |
| District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) | Arminius Lodge #25 – German Mehr Lodge #90 – Persian or Farsi  Alianza Fraternal Americana Lodge #92 – Spanish  La France Lodge #93 – French Hayastan Lodge #94 – Armenian  Massis Lodge #99 – Armenian Nur Lodge #2000 – Turkish  Italia Lodge #2001 – Italian  |
| Florida | Dr. Felix Varela Lodge #64 – Key West – Spanish |
| Massachusetts | Logia America Lodge – Cambridge – Spanish |
| New York | Garibaldi Lodge – Manhattan NY – Italian L’Union Française Lodge #17 – New York – French La France – La Clémente Amitié Cosmopolite #410 – New York – French La Sincérité Lodge # 373 – New York – French |
| Pennsylvania | Hermann-Humboldt #125 – Philadelphia – German Teutonia #367 – Reading – German |
| Wisconsin | Aurora Lodge – Milwaukee – German |
Note: Some, possibly many, U.S. Grand Lodges require that all work in all lodges be done in the English language.