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After ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote the Tablets of the Divine Plan which mentions New Zealand [6] the community grew quickly so that the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly of the country was attempted in 1923 [7] or 1924 [8] and then succeeded in 1926. The Baháʼís of New Zealand elected their first independent National Spiritual Assembly in ...
Rātana Pā, or Ratana Community, [a] is a town in the North Island of New Zealand, near Whanganui and Marton in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. The locality was the farm of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana, the founder of a Māori religious and political movement, and the settlement developed in the 1920s as followers came to see Rātana.
Baitul Mokarram Masjid and Islamic Centre 2010 [23] Manawatū-Whanganui: Palmerston North: West End: Palmerston North Islamic Centre 1995 Originally established in 1985 at a different location [24] [25] Taihape: Ad-Deen Mosque Taihape Islamic Centre 2014 Claimed to be the highest mosque in New Zealand [26] [27] [28] Whanganui: Whanganui East ...
In early 1865 emissaries carrying the smoke-dried severed heads [11] were sent from Taranaki to Chief Hirini Te Kani at Poverty Bay via Whanganui and Taupō in two parties – one via Rotorua, Whakatāne, Ōpōtiki, and East Cape, and the other through the centre of the island via Ruatahuna and Wairoa.
In 2011, the event moved from the Wanganui Central Baptist Church, where it had been held for 6 years, to the School Hall at Wanganui City College. Then in 2012, YOTN IX was moved to the War Memorial Hall Convention Centre which seats 1500 people, where the conference was held until 2015. [3]
At Our Lady's Home of Compassion Island Bay, their services include a small Conference and Retreat Centre. [35] In the Wellington inner city, the Suzanne Aubert Compassion Centre operates a soup kitchen and the Sisters visit people in need. [36] In Upper Hutt affordable quality housing for the elderly is provided. [37]
Upokongaro or Ūpokongaro is a settlement adjacent to the Whanganui River, located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand, in the Makirikiri Valley. Settled by Europeans in the 1860s, it was an important ferry crossing and riverboat stop.
The Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau (ancestral mountains of Auckland) are 14 volcanic cones that hold great historical, spiritual, ancestral and cultural significance to the 13 Māori iwi and hapū of Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau (also known as the Tāmaki Collective), who have owned them since 2014. [1] [2]