It was a branch of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

[1] It is significant as the oldest surviving Japanese Buddhist mission on Kauai; it "reinforced Japanese ties to the mother country by preserving the language, education and cultural foundations, of immigrant Japanese laborers."

The Lihue Plantation Company supported its development as a way of indirectly maintaining social control.

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