The small mission church at the centre of town is a piece of New Caledonia's Marist history. The parish was established in the 1860s when French Catholic missionaries first reached this stretch of the east coast; the current building is a modest white stucco structure with a tin roof, very much in the colonial mission tradition.
It is worth a five-minute stop more for context than for the architecture: the Marist missions on the east coast were one of the main avenues through which the Kanak communities encountered the French, and the church remains an active part of village life. Sunday morning mass is bilingual French and Paicî, the local Kanak language.