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Kawaiahao Church
This historic church in downtown Honolulu
is made if 14,000 coral blocks and it
took five years to build. Tours are available
and church services are still held three times a week.
Photo Credit: Hawaii Tourism Japan
The Kawaiahao Church in downtown Honolulu
was Hawaii's first permanent church and today
it is still a center of worship for the
Hawaiian people. Twenty-one portraits
of the royal family are on the walls
of the second floor, and the rear pews
are still reserved for royal descendents.
The church is a National Historic Landmark
and it is also on the National Register
of Historic Places.
The church was built between
1936 and 1842. It was designed by
Reverand Hiram Bingham and it is
made of 14,000 coral blocks, each
weighing between one and two thousand pounds.
There is are English language services
on Sundays at 8 a.m. and Wednesdays at 6 p.m.,
and a Hawaiian language service
on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.
The church is located at 957 Punchbowl Street,
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 (Phone: 808-522-1333).
The church is at the corner of South King Street
and Punchbowl Street.
Music CDs
Anthems of Hawaii (Kawaiahao Church Choir)
Hawaii Aloha (Kawaiahao Church Choir)
More about the Kawaiahao Church
Kawaiahao, the first Christian church in Hawaii, was built between 1836
and 1842 in New England style architecture. 14,000 coral slabs, quarried
by hand from reefs ten to twenty feet under water, comprise the main structure
of the building. Each slab, weighing more than 1000 pounds, was ferried to shore by
canoe. King Lunalilo, the first elected monarch of Hawai'i, was entombed
on the church grounds. Many of the founding missionaries and their
descendants are interred at the Mission Cemetery, first consecrated in 1823.
The Adobe Schoolhouse was erected in 1835.
See also:
Kawaiahao is a Protestant Showplace
Graves in the Kawaiahao Church
Aloha-Hawaii - Kawaiahao Church
Frommers - Kawaiahao Church
Hawaii Web - Kawaiahao Church
Wikipedia - Kawaiahao Church
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