Holy Ghost Catholic Church (Kula, Hawaii)

Holy Ghost Catholic Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church in 2010
Location	4300 Lower Kula Road, Kula, Hawaii
Coordinates	20°45′46″N 156°19′37″W / 20.76278°N 156.32694°W / 20.76278; -156.32694Coordinates: 20°45′46″N 156°19′37″W / 20.76278°N 156.32694°W / 20.76278; -156.32694
Area	1.8 acres (0.73 ha)
Built	1894
Architect	Father James Beissel,
Architectural style	Octagon mode
NRHP Reference #	83000255[1]
Added to NRHP	August 18, 1983

Holy Ghost Catholic Church, also known as Holy Ghost Mission, is an historic octagon-shaped Roman Catholic church building located at 4300 Lower Kula Road in Waiakoa in the Kula district. It was designed by Father James Beissel and built by his parishioners who were Portuguese from the Azores and the Madeira Islands who had come to work on the local sugarcane plantation. The first mass was celebrated in it in 1895. It was consecrated in 1899 by Bishop Gulstan Ropert, the third vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands — now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.^[2][3]

On April 29, 1983, it was placed on the Hawaii Register of Historic Places and on August 18, 1983,^[2][4] it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1] It may be the only historic octagonal building in Hawaii.^[5]

In 1991 the building was closed for a year in order to undergo a major restoration. Holy Ghost Mission is still an active Roman Catholic congregation, which annually at Pentecost celebrates the Portuguese Holy Ghost Festival.^[6]

Gallery

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  Front entrance

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  Altar

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  Rear view

See also

• List of Registered Historic Places in Hawaii

References

External links

• Kula Catholic Community website
• Library of Congress page on Local Legacies in Hawaii: Portuguese Holy Ghost Festival and Traditional Practices
• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. HI-45, "Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church, Waiakoa, Maui County, HI", 10 photos, 1 photo caption page

Diocese of Honolulu
Ordinaries	Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands Alexis Bachelot Vicars Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands Louis Désiré Maigret Herman Koeckemann Gulstan Ropert Libert H. Boeynaems Stephen Alencastre Bishops of Honolulu James Joseph Sweeney John Joseph Scanlan Joseph Anthony Ferrario Francis X. DiLorenzo Clarence Richard Silva
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