The design motif of the Egyptian Room is patterned after the period of the 4th Dynasty,
about 3700 BC It was inspired by the Thebian Version of the Book of the Dead. The auditorium seats 300 and has a wide
apron and fully equipped stage. The designs were all painted in the Egyptian manner, by hand, grinding clay pigments
to a fine powder and then mixing the clay with egg whites to make a tempera. The ceiling is blue and represents the
celestial sky. All of the icons depicted in the ornamental plaster, or hand painted on the walls and columns, represent
different goddesses and aspects of the soul, as typically symbolized in Egyptian tomb paintings. The proscenium
curtain was from the original 1899 Scottish Rite Temple stage.