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Lahaina, Lāhainā (Hawaiian: Lahaina, Hawaiian: [ləˈhɐjnə], / l ə ˈ h aɪ n ə /, old var. Lāhainā) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. On the northwest coast of the island of Maui , it encompasses Lahaina town and the Kaanapali and Kapalua beach resorts.
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Nāpili is located on the west side of the island of Maui. It is considered to be a satellite town of Lāhainā, located approximately 6 miles to the south.The town is among the drier regions on the entire island, owing to its position on the leeward side of the mountains.
Notwithstanding, if you actually go to the online Hawaiian Dictionary linked in that footnote, you find no such thing. "Lā hainā" yields nothing. Enter "Lahaina" on the other hand, and you get two entries (one a common noun, the other the placename), neither one having to do with cruel sun or being hot.
The temple was established in 1912 and stood on its current location since 1932. [2]In 1968, the temple had a 12-foot high statue (3.7 m) of the Amida Buddha installed for the centenary of the first Japanese people coming in Hawaii.
Soon after one of Maui's Japanese Buddhist temples, the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, burned in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, its resident minister was desperate to go back and ...
Waineʻe (moving water) served as the church for the Hawaiian royal family during the time when Lahaina was the Kingdom's capital, from the 1820 through the mid-1840s. Several members of the royal family who were initially buried near Halekamani and on Mokuʻula were reburied in 1884 in the cemetery (the first Christian cemetery in the state).
Lāʻie is one of the best-known communities of the LDS Church and the site of the Laie Hawaii Temple, the church's fifth oldest operating temple in the world. Brigham Young University–Hawaii is located in Lāʻie. The Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC), the state's largest living museum, draws millions of visitors annually.