Challenges began with raising money for the project. Apart from raising funds, the sacrifice and service of many labor missionaries was needed to start building. Labor missionaries like Antone Haiku Jr. A convert to the Church, Haiku was introduced to the gospel when a friend invited him to start playing basketball with the young adults. Over time, Haiku, who originally attended Church as a requirement for him to continue playing sports, became friends with the missionaries, was baptized, and was called as a labor missionary.
Like many of the young men called, Haiku knew very little about building when he arrived and started out by pulling nails out of boards. Eventually, he found out they were looking for two men to help with the plastering crew at the temple, so he and his friend volunteered to help mix mud for the other labor missionaries to use in the temple construction.
I just knew what it looked like. Once he ran out of work, Haiku was asked to learn a new skill—electrical work. And though the sacrifice and service of labor missionaries like Haiku and other members played a major role in the building of the Laie Hawaii Temple, it would take a small miracle to actually finish the sacred structure.
Temples of the New Millennium shares:. Though attendance at the Laie Hawaii Temple slowed dramatically during World War II, through the faith of local members, it stayed open for one endowment session a week and occasional weddings.
Since its dedication in , it has expanded from 10, square feet to 41, square feet, been painted pale green to blend with the landscaping and returned to white, been remodeled, and the grounds modernized.
A visitor's center has also been added, where thousands of visitors from the nearby Polynesian Cultural Center are welcomed each year. The exquisite boulevard features a tropical garden on one end and palm trees and decorative lights on the other. Sharing the temple grounds is a highly visited public visitors' center. The Laie Hawaii Temple was the first temple "brought to the people," as it was the first temple dedicated outside of the state or territory where Church Headquarters was located.
At just 10, square feet, the Laie Hawaii Temple was the smallest temple the Church had ever constructed, though it has since been enlarged to over 40, square feet. The presentation of the endowment was originally delivered by live acting in the Laie Hawaii Temple.
President Joseph F. Smith was in Hawaii on business in the spring of when he was moved by a spiritual impulse to dedicate a site for the Laie Hawaii Temple. The action was later ratified by the brethren and publicly sustained in the October General Conference. Before construction of the Laie Hawaii Temple could begin, the existing byfoot chapel had to be relocated over a period of days using jacks, tackle, ropes, horses, steel pipe, and timbers to pull and push the nine-ton building down the hill.
Ramsey, LeConte Stewart, A. Wright, Avard Fairbanks, J. Leo Fairbanks, friezes. History of Christianity Commons. Advanced Search. Privacy Copyright. Skip to main content. BYU ScholarsArchive. Author Richard J. Abstract The Laie Hawaii Temple majestically overlooks the beaches of Oahu and has stood as an emblem of the Latter-day Saint faith to the world since Included in History of Christianity Commons.
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