Lahaina - Jodo Mission

This Buddhist mission is built on the site of an old village in front of a majestic coconut grove. It is one of Lahaina's best-known and visited attractions because of the enormous statue of Buddha - one of the largest outside Japan - which sits in the mission's small garden. The statue was erected in 1968 in memory of the first Japanese sugar plantation workers, who came to Hawaii in 1868. The pagoda which accompanies it is Lahaina's largest Buddhist temple.