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Kawaiahaʻo Church. Kawaiahaʻo Church is known as the " Westminster Abbey of Hawaiʻi": site of royal weddings, inaugurations, installations, christenings, funerals and tombs. / 21.3043°N 157.8579°W / 21.3043; -157.8579. Kawaiahaʻo Church is a historic Congregational church located in Downtown Honolulu on the Hawaiian Island of Oʻahu.
Abraham Kahikina Akaka (February 21, 1917 – September 10, 1997) was an American clergyman. For 27 years, Rev. Akaka was Kahu (shepherd) of Kawaiahaʻo Church in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother was of Hawaiian ancestry, and his father was of Hawaiian and Chinese ancestry. He delivered his messages in both the Hawaiian and English languages.
The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives in Honolulu, Hawaii, was established in 1920 by the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, a private, non-profit organization and genealogical society, on the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christian missionaries in Hawaiʻi. In 1962, the Mission Houses, together with ...
Kawaihae, Hawaii. Coordinates: 20°2′7″N 155°49′42″W. Loading outrigger canoes at the Kawaihae Canoe Club. Kawaihae is an unincorporated community on the west side of the island of Hawaiʻi in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi, 35 miles (56 km) north of Kailua-Kona. Its harbor is one of only three on the island, together with that of Hilo and ...
Kaumakapili Church is a Gothic Revival church located at 766 North King Street in the Kapālama neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. It was originally established on April 1, 1838, at the corner of Smith and Beretania Streets as a Protestant church for common people; the only existing church, the Kawaiahao Church , was attended by nobility.
Kawaiahao Church and Mission Houses and grounds, including Lunalilo's Tomb (1876) and adobe schoolhouse (1835) Washington Place (1846) and grounds; St. Andrew's Cathedral (1867) and Tenney Hall; ʻIolani Barracks (1870) Aliiolani Hale (1874) ʻIolani Palace (1882) and grounds, including the Old Archives Building (1906) and old mausoleum mound ...
Sybil Moseley Bingham. Portraits of Hiram and Sybil Moseley Bingham, 1819, by Samuel F. B. Morse. Sybil Moseley Bingham (September 14, 1792 — February 27, 1848) was an American teacher in the Hawaiian Islands, a member of the first company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).
He fell in love with Victoria Ventula—a local girl who danced hula—and married in 1942 at historic Kawaiaha 'o Church. During the war Cale went on to serve in the Pacific and fought in the ...