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- Title: Heroic History and Chiefly Chapels in 19th Century Tahiti (Report)
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 197 KB
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INTRODUCTION On Tuesday, 11 May, 1819 almost the entire Christian population of Tahiti -between five and six thousand people--assembled in the recently completed Royal Mission Chapel, a monumental building constructed under the direction the ari'i (high chief), Pomare. The length of two football fields, this Polynesian equivalent to the Great Pyramid was almost certainly the largest built structure in Oceania and one of the longest churches in the world (it was 200 ft longer than Winchester Cathedral). Here is how one missionary from the London Missionary Society described it: