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Kenakena Pa and Church

Te Reo

 

Location: Te Āti Awa Park entrance, 14 Mazengarb Road, Paraparaumu Beach

By 1824, many Te Āti Awa people had migrated from Taranaki and built a great pa at Kenakena, with lesser centres at Te Uruhi, Arapawaiti and Waimeha. They were led by Reretawhangawhanga, father of Te Rangitake (Wiremu Kingi). At one time Kenakena had several thousand inhabitants, extensive gardens and a stockade with carved posts.

In 1838, Octavius Hadfield volunteered to be a missionary on the Kāpiti Coast. By 1843, the first church in the region was built on this site.

In April 1848, Wiremu Kingi with 580 Te Āti Awa followers returned to re-occupy their ancestral lands at Waitara, in Taranaki. Later that same year, on 16 October 1848, a severe earthquake lifted the coastline and damaged the Kenakena stockade and church. Most of the remaining people of Kenakena moved to a new settlement at Tuku Rākau, north of the Waikanae River. By 1854 windblown sand dunes had buried the site of the church and pa.

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Hadfield Young Hadfield Young Kenakena Churchext Kenakena Churchext Kenakena Huts Kenakena Huts Kenakena Sitecolour Kenakena Sitecolour Kenakena Stockade Kenakena Stockade Waikanae Pa Waikanae Pa
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