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Māori church, Rangiriri, 1864

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Māori church, Rangiriri, 1864

Rangiriri was the site of a significant battle in the Waikato War in November 1863. Local Māori who supported the Māori King movement against the colonial state were also believers in their own form of Christianity. This is their church – in front are the graves of men killed in the battle some months before.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, D. M. Beere Collection

Reference: 1/2-096093-G

by Daniel Beere

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Stenhouse, Religion and society – Māori and religion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28404/maori-church-rangiriri-1864 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Stenhouse, i tāngia i te 23 March 2011.