Mailekini Heiau

Mailekini Heiau. . The remains of Mailekini Heiau, a temple used before the time of Kamehameha, stand before you. Many mysteries surround Mailekini Heiau; its early history, kept orally and secretly within the priesthood, was never recorded. Historians agree that Mailekini Heiau predates Pu'ukoholā, but by how many years no one knows, , In the early 1800s, Kamehameha converted Mailekini Heiau into a fort, placing up to 21 cannons on the front walls. In 1823 the remains of the temple caught the attention of an English missionary, who commented that it "was nearly equal in its dimensions to that on the summit of the Hill (Pu'ukokolā), but inferior in every other respect." , It you look closely at the back walls of Mailekini Heiau, you can see sections that are somewhat higher in color, indicating where the National Park Service preformed emergency stabilization work in the 1970s.