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Attractions & Activities: Historic Lahaina
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Lahaina Jodo Mission
This site has long been held sacred. The Hawaiians called it Puunoa Point, which means "the hill freed from taboo." Once a small village named "Mala" ("garden"), Japanese immigrants, who came to Hawaii in 1868 as laborers for the sugarcane plantations, loved to spend time in this peaceful place and eventually built a small wooden temple to worship here. In 1968, on the 100th anniversary of the Japanese in Hawaii, a Great Buddha statue, the largest outside of Japan (some 12 feet high and weighing 3 1/2 tons) was brought here from Japan. The immaculate grounds also contain a replica of the original wooden temple and 90-foot-tall pagoda.
12 Ala Moana St.
(off Front St., near the Mala Wharf).
Phone: 808/661-4304 .
Open: Daily during daylight hours.
Free admission.
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