Royal Palace

The installation will be the first of its kind in the Pacific as a national leader takes the personal step to use solar power for their official residence.

The Tongan King will also become the world’s first monarch to use solar power, sending the message that Buckingham Palace should perhaps follow suit.

Church history account traces the arrival of two young missionaries who made landfall 125 years ago, and landed at Tatakamotonga Village, the estates of high Chief Tuku’aho. 

On the very next day, August 15, 1891, the two young missionaries gained an audience with King George Tupou I, at these very Royal Palace grounds. They asked for permission to preach their Christian beliefs in the Kingdom. His Majesty consented granting them free reign to proselytize, “…and any of my subjects chooses to join your Christian church, it will be according to their free will,” the king said.