"Mokuaikaua Church" - Hawaii's First Church
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Jake39
N 19° 38.364 W 155° 59.636
5Q E 186000 N 2174337
The Oldest and First Founded Christian Church in the State of Hawai`i at 75-5713 Ali'i Drive
Kailua Kona, HI 96740-1701
Open Hours Dawn to Dusk Monday - Sunday.
Waymark Code: WMXP7
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2006
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Mokuaikaua Church was founded by missionaries who came from Boston Massachusetts on the brig Thaddeus. After 163days +/- aboard the 85 foot brig, the First American Missionaries arrived in Kailua Village on the 4th of April, 1820. The first missionaries sent to Hawai'i in 1819 by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions consisted of two ministers, two teachers, an apprentice printer and a farmer, along with their spouses. The two ministers were Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston, a 32 year-old graduate of Yale University and the Andover Seminary. After a voyage of 164 days and 18,000 miles their ship 'Thaddeus' arrived on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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