New Church For Mission
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This new Catholic Mission church at Avuavu, near Honiara, BSIP, replaces the old church which stood there for 14 years of war and peace until it was given the final coup de grace in the near-hurricane which destroyed the whole station in 1952.
This new church has not been built on the same site as the old church, but has gone up in a new clearing in the jungle surrounding the mission station. Some iron and timber which was salvaged after the storm, plus native material, three tons of cement and a great deal of individual effort has gone into its con struction. The church is 26 feet wide and 84 feet long. A special feature of its architecture is 2 successful compro mise between native and European design.
It has a colonnade of reinforced concrete pillars all round the building. The spaces between them are filled in, at the bottom, with concrete sections and the upper part left open as windows.