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The structural layout of ancient temples established a model of sacred architecture that directly influences the arrangement of the lodge in the Craft 1. The traditional Egyptian temple was a quadrangular building, longer than its width, featuring an entrance flanked by tall obelisks that recall the two pillars standing at the porch of King Solomon's Temple 1. Its interior was divided into a main hall for worshipers and an inner sanctuary or sekos at its western end—the equivalent of the Jewish Holy of Holies—accessible only to the priesthood 1.

This structural division into a holy and a most holy place originated in the Egyptian model and was adopted in the construction of King Solomon's Temple, later passing into Greek and Roman architectural traditions 1. Masonic lodges are designed as spiritual imitations of these ancient temples, maintaining the fundamental concept of partitioned sacred space 1.

A key distinction lies in the orientation of these spaces. While the most holy place was located in the West in both the Egyptian temples and King Solomon's Temple, this arrangement undergoes a transposition in Craft Masonry, where the most sacred area of the lodge is positioned in the East 1.

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