7035 x 4690 px | 59,6 x 39,7 cm | 23,5 x 15,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
23 septembre 2013
Lieu:
Kohala, HI, USA
Informations supplémentaires:
As I drove around the islands, I was surprised to find so many old churches. Here in Kohala stands Kalahikiola Congregational Church, built in 1855. From their website — "Kalahikiola, meaning 'The Day Salvation Comes', is the name of a small hill on the side of the Kohala Mountain. The name goes back to the time of the arrival of the first Christian missionaries here; a time when a new faith was entering into the hearts and minds of the island people. From that hill came the great timbers for the present church building; so that when the church was consecrated on October 11, 1855 it was appropriately given the name Kalahikiola. The Reverend Elias Bond and his wife Ellen arrived in Kohala in 1841 where they spent their whole lives working for the people and the churches of Kohala. Father Bond, as he was soon to be called, oversaw the building of Kalahikiola. He also learned to speak the Hawaiian language and opened a school for boys and teachers. Later Mother Bond started the Kohala Girls School. When in later years, immigrants came from other lands to work on the sugar plantations, Father Bond cared also for their spiritual welfare and churches were started for these language groups. By 1950, almost 100 years after the building of the church, the churches of the Japanese, Chinese, Caucasian and Hawaiian Christians joined under one roof, Kalahikiola. [Some years later the Pilgrim Church, persons of Filipino ancestry, joined this initial union.] We are happy to be able to report that this was the first union of independent language churches in the islands. The congregation today still reflects this diversity." On October 15, 2006, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake devastated this historic structure. It required a lot of planning, fundraising and work but on February 27, 2010, the repair and reconstruction was complete and the church was officially re-dedicated.
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