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Photograph of Holy Ghost Catholic Church
Photograph by Joel Bradshaw, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Holy Ghost Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Holy Ghost Catholic Church, also known as Holy Ghost Mission, is an historic octagon-shaped Roman Catholic church building on the island of Maui, located at 4300 Lower Kula Road in Waiakoa in the Kula district. It was designed by Father James Beissel and built by his parishioners who were Portuguese from the Azores and the Madeira Islands who had come to work on the local sugarcane plantation.”

Wikipedia article Holy Ghost Catholic Church (Kula, Hawaii), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Maui County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Lower Kula Rd., Kula, 96790
  • When was it listed? August 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Kula
  • National Register reference number. 83000255 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Holy Ghost Catholic Church between 1992 and 2017, burning about 262 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Holy Ghost Catholic Church: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Titanium, Metal, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Maui Bauxite DepositTitanium, Metal, AluminumOccurrenceBauxite, Ilmenite
West MauiAluminumOccurrenceGibbsite
West MauiAluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Maui County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ket Hing Society Building4.1 miles1982
Frank and Theresa Gomes House5.8 miles2001
Hardy House5.9 miles1984
Kalepolepo Fishpond7.9 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000255 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Maui CountyAll 41 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.