Brigham Young University of Hawaii, also trademarked as Brigham Young University Hawaii, is a private co-educational university in the town of Lai'e thirty-five miles from Honolulu, Hawai'i on the windward coast of the island of O'ahu in the United States. A campus of the Brigham Young University System anchored in Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University of Hawaii is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and named after the American religious leader, colonist, first territorial governor of Utah and founder of Salt Lake City. One of the foremost institutions of Brigham Young University of Hawaii is the Polynesian Cultural Center, the largest living museum in the State of Hawai'i.
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