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St. Michael's Church

  • Address: 75-5769 Alii Dr., Kailua-Kona, HI | Map It
  • Phone: 808/326-7771

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The site of Kona's first Catholic church, built in 1840, is marked by a small thatch structure to the left of the present church, which dates from 1850. In front of the church a coral grotto shrine holds 2,500 coral heads, harvested in 1940, when preservation was not yet an issue.

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