ALOHA from O'ahu
---Kawaiaha'o Church---
Kawaiaha'o Church is a historical church located in Downtown Honolulu on the Hawaiian Island of O'ahu. It is the oldest Christian church on O'ahu and the second oldest in the state having been established on April 22,1820 as the “Mission Church of Honolulu”. The church and its associated Mission Houses comprise Kawaiaha'o Church and Mission Houses, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, designated in 1962. In 1966 it was included in the National Register of Historic Places.
The name comes from the Hawaiian phrase Ka wai a Ha'o (the water of Ha'o) because a spring and freshwater pool in the care of the High Chiefess Ha'o was at this location. It once was the national church of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the chapel for the royal family. The church has been affectionately known as the “Mother Church of Hawaii”, “Hale Pule Lāhui (National House of Prayer of Hawai'i)”, the “Luakini” (“The tabernacle”), the “Great Stone Church”, and the “Westminster Abbey of the Pacific”.
The current Kawaiaha'o Church building was commissioned by the regency of Ka'ahumanu during the reigns of Kamehameha II and Kamehameha III. Designed by Reverend Hiram Bingham in the New England style, it was constructed between 1839 and 1842 from about 14,000 coral blocks, each weighing a ton, mined from an offshore reef on the west side of O'ahu. Hawaiian divers with hand tools dived 3 to 6 meters below sea-level to chisel out each coral block, which was then transported from the reef and onto shore by canoes.
In 1843, while at Kawaiaha'o, Kamehameha III spoke the phrase Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono ("The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness"), which would later become Hawai'i's official motto. The name Kawaiaha'o was not applied to the site until 1853.
Kawaiaha'o Church was frequented by the chiefs of the Hawaiian Islands as well as the members of the reigning Kamehameha Dynasty and Kalakaua Dynasty. The upper gallery of the church is adorned with 21 portraits of Ali'i (Hawaiian royalty). King Lunalilo, the first elected monarch of Hawai'i, is buried in the courtyard since he preferred to be laid to rest in a church cemetery rather than within the Royal Mausoleum.
Kawaiaha'o Church is a Hawaiian Congregationalist church and a member of the United Church of Christ. Today, Kawaiaha'o continues to use the Hawaiian language for parts of its church services.
You DO NOT need to enter the Church grounds to locate the cache.
~~~For the puzzle, maybe if you learn how fo speak pidgin.~~~
The Cache can be found at:
North 21 18.
No make da kine statues.
No cockaroach notting.
Watch yo' mout. No swea with God's name.
West 157 51.
Leesen to yo' muddah and yo' fuddah.
God is numbah one.
No lie, brah!
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Cache with Al
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