Paofai Protestant Temple

Paofai Protestant Temple is considered to be the heart of the Evangelical Church in French Polynesia. Built in 1981 on the site of a bamboo chapel by Reverend Crook, it was baptized Siloama in 1869, which corrresponds to the Hebrew name Siloe - the pool in Jerusalem where Jesus healed a blind man.
In 1908, the temple was judged to be too small for the 5,000 inhabitants of Papeete, so a new temple, based on the traditional architecture of the old one, was designed by architect Rodolphe...