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Missionaries preaching under kukui groves, 1841. This is a list of missionaries to Hawaii. Before European exploration, the Hawaiian religion was brought from Tahiti by Paʻao according to oral tradition. Notable missionaries with written records below are generally Christian.
The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives in Honolulu, Hawaii, was established in 1920 by the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, a private, non-profit organization and genealogical society, on the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christian missionaries in Hawaiʻi.
Christian missionaries arrived in the early 1800s, and began converting the Hawaiians to their faiths and influencing Hawaiian culture. [14] In the 1830s, repeated interactions began between Hawaii and other cultures such as Mexican, Portuguese, and Spanish. [15] Immediate changes could be noticed in Hawaiian culture and daily life.
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (acronym, HMCS; sometimes abbreviated as Mission Children's Society; common name, Cousins' Society; originally, Social Missionary Society; est. 1852) [1] is an American historical and memorial society of descendants of Protestant missionaries associated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the Hawaiian Kingdom.
The missionary culture at the time meant that many people, including Nāhiʻenaʻena, practiced both Hawaiian and Christian beliefs. She practiced cultural traditions such as hula, but also drank rum just as the missionaries did. [5] However, she showed rebellion and distaste for many Christian tasks. [6]
Missionaries led a group of Hawaiian Latter-day Saints in establishing a colony on the island of Lānaʻi in 1854. [11] In 1857, the American missionaries left due to the Utah War. No new missionaries came until Walter M. Gibson arrived in 1861. Gibson instituted irregular activities such as selling the priesthood.
The Chamberlain House (also known as Mission House) [1] is an American museum and library, which originally served as a missionary home and office. It is located on King Street, in the rear of Kawaiahaʻo Church, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. [1]
The American missionaries Asa Thurston, Artemis Bishop, Joseph Goodrich and English missionary William Ellis toured the island in 1823 and planned to establish a network of several posts. [2] The first two were Mokuaikaua Church in the Kona District (western coast), and this one on the east side.