Waimea Higashi Hongwanji

About Us Waimea Higashi Hongwanji In 1899, responding to requests of the Issei, Rev. Kenryu Yamada arrived on Kauai and started sharing the teaching of Nembutsu. His successor, Rev. Sueto Sato from Kumamoto, Japan, realized the necessity of building a temple. With the assistance of lay members, Waimea Higashi Hongwanji
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Koloa Jodo Mission

About Us Koloa Jodo Mission Rev. Jisujo Muroyama arrived on Kauai in January 1910. His missionary work began in the rented second floor room of Mr. Hongo’s home. He and his supporters laid the cornerstone of the new temple at the present site that March. Koloa Jodo Mission is located
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Kapaa Jodo Mission

About Us Kapaa Jodo Mission Rev. Tatsuyu Yoshida came to Kapaa and began missionary work by renting a house from a Chinese owner in 1911. The second resident minister, Rev. Gentetsu Harada arrived and built a Temple in September 1912, soon after a Japanese Language School was organized. The present
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Kapaa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple

About Us Kapaa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Kapaa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple has been serving Kauai since 1922. The temple belongs to the Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, one of the Pure Land Stream of Mahayana Buddhism. It is one of 36 temples affiliated with the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii. Our minister is Rev.
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Lihue Hongwanji Mission

About Us Lihue Hongwanji Mission Established in 1900, The Lihu‘e Hongwanji Mission was incorporated on August 20, 1958. As a non-profit (eleemonsynary) corporation. Lihu‘e Hongwanji’s functions are to establish, conduct, and maintain a church, to provide facilities for public worship and religious training, to preach and disseminate the doctrines, principles,
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Kauai Soto Zen Temple

Contact Us Kauai Soto Zen Temple The Zenshuji temple on Kaua’i had its beginnings when McBryde Sugar Company was expanding. Many villages, called camps, were established to house the imported plantation laborers.  In the fall of 1899, a group of recent Japanese immigrants were assigned to McBryde and settled at Wahiawa,
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