The Scottish Rite in the Valley of New York City is a fraternal organization that provides its members with a life time of brotherhood, learning, mutual support, and commitment steeped in over 200 years of local history and tradition.  

Our Valley reflects the diversity you might expect from New York City, the melting pot of the world.  We have members from numerous vocations, countries, and belief systems and we come together in harmony to continue to shape our rough ashlars into perfect ones. 

The Scottish Rite affirms its unswerving loyalty to the fundamental purpose of Freemasonry, which purpose from time immemorial has been to improve and strengthen the character of the individual man, and through the individual, the character of the community, thus under girding the community with those spiritual values which give it strength and stability. The Scottish Rite believes that this purpose is to be attained by laying a broad basis of principle upon which men of every race, country, sect, and opinion may unite.