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Laie

Hawaii, United States
Also known as: Lā‘ie
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Laie, town, Honolulu county, on Laie Bay, northeastern Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. The land was acquired by Mormon missionaries in 1864 and settled by a colony of Hawaiian Mormons. The impressive white Laie Hawaii Temple, where the highest rites of the Mormon church can be performed, was built in 1919 on the site of an ancient Hawaiian “city of refuge” (puuhonua; “a sanctuary for the pursued”). The Polynesian Cultural Center, a project of the Mormon...

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