Fiji

A Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Murugan at the southern end of Nadi's main street beside the Nadi River, widely introduced as the largest Hindu temple in the Southern Hemisphere. Standing on the site of the first South Indian community temple in Fiji (1913), the current complex had its foundation stone laid in 1976 and was consecrated in 1994, crafted in the Dravidian style with a brightly painted multi-tiered gopuram gateway tower by eight artisans invited from India. The complex comprises three sanctums dedicated to Murugan, Ganesh, and Shiva with Meenakshi, housing a main Murugan image carved in India.

Queens Road, Nadi, đảo Viti Levu, Fiji

Photo: Mark Heard from Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

The flagship sanctuary and ceremonial heart of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma (the largest Christian denomination among indigenous iTaukei Fijians), standing at the corner of Stewart and Epeli Streets in central Suva alongside Epworth House, conceived for the 1935 centenary of Methodist mission work in Fiji (begun at Lakeba on October 12, 1835) and completed in 1954.

Mother Church and National Conference Sanctuary of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma (Lotu Wesele, the largest Protestant denomination in Fiji)Corner of Stewart Street and Epeli Street, Central Suva, Viti Levu Island, Fiji

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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva on Pratt Street in Fiji's capital, initiated in 1894 and built in its main phase in 1902 (completed in 1939) under Bishop Julien Vidal SM and the Marist Fathers using Pyrmont sandstone blocks shipped across the Pacific from quarries near Sydney, Australia, elevated to metropolitan cathedral status by Pope Paul VI on June 21, 1966.

Metropolitan Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva (Head of the Ecclesiastical Province of Suva in the Pacific) and Historic Architectural Landmark of SuvaPratt Street, Central Suva, Viti Levu Island, Fiji

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A historic Roman Catholic church on Beach Street in the UNESCO World Heritage port town of Levuka on Ovalau Island, Fiji, founded in 1858 by French Marist missionary Father Jean-Baptiste Breheret SM and famous for its 19-meter stone clock tower that chimes twice every hour and houses a green marine navigation light guiding ships through the Levuka barrier reef passage.

Core Monument of Levuka Historical Port Town (UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2013, Ref. 1399) and Historic Mother Church of Catholicism in FijiBeach Street, Historic Port Town of Levuka, Ovalau Island, Lomaiviti Province, Fiji

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The principal congregational mosque of Western Fiji on Vakabale Street in the Sugar City of Lautoka on Viti Levu Island, founded in 1928 by descendants of Indian Girmitiya sugarcane laborers and the Fiji Muslim League, rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1947, and expanded into a two-story green-and-white Islamic architectural complex.

Principal Congregational Mosque (Jame Masjid) of Western Fiji under the Fiji Muslim League and Historic Cultural Landmark of LautokaVakabale Street (near Yasawa Street), Central Lautoka City, Western Division, Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Photo: Vickery, Milton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons