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Oahu Map: Kawaiahao ChurchKawaiahao Church Frommer's Highly Recommended

Hours Mon-Fri 8am-4pm; Sun services 9am
Address 957 Punchbowl St
Location At King St
Transportation TheBus: 2
Phone 808/522-1333
Web site www.kawaiahao.org
Prices Free admission (small donations appreciated)

Frommer's Review

In 1842 Kawaiahao Church stood complete at last, the crowning achievement of missionaries and Hawaiians working together for the first time on a common project. Designed by Rev. Hiram Bingham and supervised by Kamehameha III, who ordered his people to help build it, the project took 5 years. Workers quarried 14,000 coral blocks weighing 1,000 pounds each from the offshore reefs and cut timber in the forests for the beams.

This proud stone church, complete with bell tower and colonial colonnade, was the first permanent Western house of worship in the islands. It became the church of the Hawaiian royalty and remains in use today. Some fine portraits of Hawaiian royalty hang inside.

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