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Waiola Church and Wainee Cemetery

  • Address: 535 Wainee St., Lahaina, HI, 96761 | Map It
  • Phone: 808/661-4349

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Better known as Wainee Church and immortalized in James Michener's Hawaii, the original building from the early 1800s was destroyed once by fire and twice by fierce windstorms. Repositioned and rebuilt in 1951, it was renamed Waiola ("water of life") and has been standing proudly ever since. The adjacent cemetery was the first Christian cemetery in the Islands and is the final resting place of many of Hawaii's most important monarchs, including Kamehameha the Great's sacred wife, Queen Keopuolani.

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