This small temple was constructed as a branch of the Honohina temple. However, with the passage of time and population shifts, it became the main temple in 1969 when the mother temple was dismantled. A shallow irimoya-roofed portico reveals the structure as more than a large plantation house.
Don J. Hibbard, "Honohina Hongwanji Temple", [Nīnole, Hawaii], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/HI-01-HA48.
Buildings of Hawaii, Don J. Hibbard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, 271-271.
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