Oruaiti Chapel - Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
S 35° 44.578 E 174° 16.312
60H E 253294 N 6041127
An octagional shaped chapel in the grounds of the Whangarei Heritage Park.
Waymark Code: WMA017
Location: North Island, New Zealand
Date Posted: 10/24/2010
Views: 3
Believed to be the world's smallest Methodist Chapel this tiny Oruaiti Chapel was first built near Mangonui Harbour in 1859 and was only accessible by water. It was moved a short distance to be closer to a road in 1936, then to a Methodist site in Kamo Road, Whangarei in 1946, and finally to the museum in 1975.
Built from a single kauri log and originally thatched, it was first shingled in 1866, re-shingled in kauri in 1919, and again, later, in cedar, only to be re-roofed in cedar once more in 1990.
Its charm is in its shape which owes itself to Thomas Ball, an early immigrant who copied the pattern of Lincolnshire octagonal chapels where Wesleyans could gather in ‘preaching houses’.
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