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Mokuaikaua Church, located on the "Big Island" of Hawaii, is the oldest Christian church in the Hawaiian Islands. The congregation dates to 1820 and the building was completed in 1837. The congregation dates to 1820 and the building was completed in 1837.
Hawaii's churches observe the third Sunday in February as a day of commemoration in honor of its first Christian. A plaque at the Cornwall gravesite reads: "In July of 1993, the family of Henry Opukahaia took him home to Hawaii for interment at Kahikolu Congregational Church Cemetery, Napo'opo'o, Kona, Island of Hawaii.
The site was added to the state register of historic places on November 26, 1986, as site 10-37-7234, [4] and the national register on June 5, 1987, as site 87000794. [5] The Holualoa Bay Congregational Church reconstructed the building in the early 1990s [3] under the direction of Norman Kenneth Smith. [6]
Rev. Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (1800–1855), who founded the first church on Molokaʻi island; Rev. David Belden Lyman (1803–1868), who founded the Hilo Boarding School; Rev. Lorenzo Lyons (1807–1886), who built Imiola Church in Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii; The sixth ABCFM company arrived on May 1, 1833, on the Mentor: [8] Rev. Lowell Smith
Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaiʻi in the United States. Located in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi , 75-5769 Ali'i Drive , coordinates 19°38′13″N 155°59′28″W / 19.63694°N 155.99111°W / 19.63694; -155.
The Kona Hawaii Temple became the church's seventieth temple, announced on May 7, 1998. Located in the town of Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii, the site of Kona Hawaii Temple was dedicated on March 13, 1999. The structure itself was constructed in concrete, white marble and some native materials.
Founded in the 1840s, church dedicated in 1902. Known as the Painted Church due to its extensive murals. [39] St. Michael the Archangel: 75-5769 Ali‘i Dr, Kailua-Kona: Founded in 1840, the first parish on the Island of Hawaii. Church dedicated in 2015. [40] Immaculate Conception Mission Church, 76-5960 Mamalahoa Hwy, Holualoa
The first Christian service of any type in Hawaii was a lay funeral service conducted by Captain James Cook for an English sailor at Kealakekua Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1779. The first Christian liturgical service held in Hawaiʻi was a Russian Orthodox celebration of Pascha ( Πάσχα , Easter in Greek).