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Pilgrimage Aotearoa | Haerenga Tapu Aotearoa:
Your Guide to 100 New Zealand Sites

By Jenny Boyack and John Hornblow

Pilgrimage Aotearoa | Haerenga Tapu Aotearoa offers readers a guide to 100 unique sites in New Zealand, blending history, culture, and spirituality.

It invites you on a journey of reflection and discovery, uncovering the rich stories that make these places significant to the nation’s identity and soul.

This book:

• Will help you discover 100 meaningful sites across New Zealand, each with spiritual, cultural, or historical significance.
• Offers deeper insight into Aotearoa’s heritage and landscape through reflective travel.
• Is perfect for both solo and group pilgrimages, offering guidance for various journeys.
• Encourages personal growth and spiritual connection through reflection.
• Provides practical tips for planning a pilgrimage, including routes and hidden gems.
• Connects readers with stories that enrich their understanding of the land and people.
• Is ideal for travellers looking to experience New Zealand beyond the usual tourist spots.

Features

• A guide to 100 unique pilgrimage sites across New Zealand.
• In-depth descriptions of each location’s spiritual, historical, and cultural context.
• Practical tips for planning and navigating pilgrimages.
• Includes reflections and prompts for personal growth and contemplation.
• Beautifully written with vivid, engaging narratives for each destination.

You are buying a PDF eBook edition of this 232 page A5 book

ISBN 9781991027542
Colour photos throughout
Philip Garside Publishing Ltd (2024)

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Description

Pilgrimage Aotearoa is your essential companion for discovering the spiritual, historical, and cultural treasures of New Zealand. Written by Jenny Boyack and John Hornblow, this guidebook takes readers on an inspiring journey through 100 unique sites across Aotearoa, each with its own story of significance.

Whether you’re looking to explore sacred spaces, historic landmarks, or natural wonders, Pilgrimage Aotearoa offers insight into how these locations can enrich your soul and connect you more deeply with the land.

This book is perfect for travellers seeking more than just scenery, providing a pathway for reflection, growth, and meaningful connection with both people and place.

It features practical tips for planning your pilgrimage, from recommended routes to hidden gems, and thoughtful reflections that invite you to contemplate your personal journey.

Each site is brought to life with vivid descriptions and historical context, illuminating the deep roots of spirituality and heritage that make Aotearoa unique.

Whether you’re embarking on a solo pilgrimage or exploring with friends and family, Pilgrimage Aotearoa is an inspiring guide to experiencing the deeper meaning of your journey.

Praise for Pilgrimage Aoteaoroa

Review in Touchstone February 2025
By Rev Tony Franklin-Ross

“Many of us have appreciated the concept of pilgrimages, and may even have undertaken pilgrimages ourselves.

We might associate pilgrimages with overseas locations, often being a multi-day physical walk covering long distances – such as the famous Camino in Spain or St Cuthbert’s Way in England. Or even a day walking a ‘pilgrimage’ in central London in the footsteps of John Wesley, comprehending something of the context of his life and ministry. 

Might we miss the opportunities for pilgrimage within our own Aotearoa, unexpected gems? Admittedly there are not many multi-day walking pilgrimage routes in Aotearoa New Zealand (excluding national park hiking tracks). But there are many sites that the warrant a stop while touring by road, or knitting together a series of visits while driving in a region. There are even possibilities of urban day-walk pilgrimages in our major cities. 

To aid this discovery, Pilgrimage Aotearoa / Haerenga Tapu Aotearoa offers readers a unique guide to 100 sites in Aotearoa New Zealand, blending history, culture and spirituality. It invites you on an inspiring journey of reflection and discovery, uncovering rich stories that make these places significant to our country’s identity and soul. 
The authors, Jenny Boyack and John Hornblow, write from an outworking of their own learnings and insights from undertaking their own pilgrimages, and leading groups on pilgrimages. The seedbed in preparing this book is their exploration of the beauty and spirituality of our country and the special places, often unnoticed, that are rich in spirituality as well as history. 

There is truly an incarnational spirituality engaged with the earliest and enduring Christian presence in the country, while others tell contemporary stories. Some sites record terrible injustice and suffering and are a cause for remorse and repentance. Others are inspiring and heart-warming and reflect foundational values of respect, justice, peace and restoration. 

The underlying question of the book invites is to consider how God works through the places and the people associated with the site, past and present.

Each entry tells a little of the story, the people, directions to find the site, and a short reflection. There are beautiful photographs and poems, prayers and artwork contributed by locals or people earthed in the story of the site.

More than a simple travel guide, the touchstones add breadth to the work whether you are visiting the site, or reading as an ‘armchair pilgrim’ remembering a previous visit, or being introduced to a site for the first time.

I found myself doing just this: visiting a site for the first time, reading about a site I have visited previously and appreciating a new (re)connection, or pondering a site previously unknown to me and making a note to visit one day. It is a treat to reflect through the words and photos on familiar sites such as Rangihou/Marsden’s Cross and the range of mission stations in the far north, and to read of places I knew of but have not yet visited myself.”

About the Authors

Contents

Introduction
Pilgrimage in Aotearoa New Zealand
Christian pilgrimage
Engaging with a site
A poem On the Road by Joy Cowley

1 — Northland

• Oihi Bay, Rangihoua
• Ruatara - A story
• Wesleydale, Kaeo
• Kerikeri Mission Sites
• Waitangi Treaty Grounds
• Henry Williams - A story
• St Paul’s Anglican Church, Paihia
• Christ Church, Russell
• Pompallier Printery Russell
• Te Waimate Mission and St John the Baptist Church
• Holy Trinity Church, Pakaraka
• St Michael’s Anglican Church, Ngawha
• Māngungu Mission House, South Hokianga
• Manea, Opononi
• Totara Point, North Hokianga
• Hāta Maria/St Mary’s Church, North Hokianga
• Statue of Dame Whina Cooper, Panguru, North Hokianga

2 — Auckland

• Rotoroa Island, Hauraki Golf
• Vaughan Park Anglican Retreat Centre, Long Bay
• Patuone’s Grave, Devonport
• Understanding Colonisation
• Studio of St John the Baptist, Takapuna
• Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell
• St Stephen’s Chapel, Taurarua (Judges Bay)

Auckland Inner City Walking Pilgrimage

• St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
• St Paul’s Anglican Church
• Auckland Baptist Tabernacle
• Pitt Street Methodist Church
• St Matthew-in-the-City Anglican Church
• St Patricks Catholic Cathedral

3 — Waikato

Te Awamutu Driving Pilgrimage

• Pirongia Heritage and Information Centre
• Alexandra Redoubt, Pirongia
• Old St John’s Church, Te Awamutu
• Rangiaowhia Catholic Mission
• St Paul’s Anglican Church, Rangiaowhia
• Monument for Burned Whare, Rangiaowhia

Matamata/Waharoa Driving Pilgrimage

• Wairere Falls
• Tārore’s Grave, Waharoa
• Peria

4 — Bay of Plenty

• Te Papa Tauranga/The Elms
• St George’s Church, Gate Pā, Tauranga
• St Faith’s Church, Ōhinemutu, Rotorua
• Spencer Mausoleum, Lake Tarawera
• Te Kai Whakaora/St Saviour’s Anglican Church, Rūātoki
• Historic Presbyterian Sites, Ruatāhuna

5 — East Coast / Hawke’s Bay

• Padre Hēnare Wepiha Te Wainohu Memorial, Wairoa
• Toiroa’s Vision, Māhia Peninsula
• Eskdale War Memorial Church, Esk Valley, Napier

6 — Taupo

• St Paul’s Anglican Church, Tokaanu

7 — Taranaki

• Mere Tapu/St Mary’s Cathedral, New Plymouth
• Parihaka - A story

8 — Whanganui

• Jerusalem/Hiruhārama, Whanganui River
• St Paul’s Memorial Church, Pūtiki
• Rātana Temple, Rātana

9 — Rangitikei

• Hadfield’s Grave, Tutu Totara

10 — Manawatu

• Te Marae o Hine/The Square, Palmerston North
• Te Rangimarie Marae, Rangiotū

11 — Horowhenua

• Sacred Monastery of the Holy Archangels, Levin
• Rangiātea Church, Ōtaki
• St Mary’s Catholic Church/Pukekaraka, Ōtaki

12 — Wairarapa

• Greek Orthodox Church, Masterton
• ANZAC Walkway and site of the first ANZAC service, Tinui

13 — Wellington

• Christ Church, Taitā, Lower Hutt

Wellington City Walking Pilgrimage

• Te Aro Pā Visitor Centre
• Te Aro Park
• Wesley Methodist Church

• St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church
• National Parihaka Memorial
• Home of Compassion, Island Bay

14 — Malborough

• Wairau Affray Monuments, Tuamarina

15 – Nelson / Tasman

Nelson Walking Pilgrimage

• Christ Church Cathedral
• The cottage of Tohu and Te Whiti
• The Bishop’s School

• A poem - My House by Ana Lisa de Jong
• St Paul’s Lutheran Church, Upper Moutere
• St John’s Anglican Church, Wakefield
• Chapel of Christ by the Lake, St Arnaud

16 — Canterbury

Christchurch Earthquake Walking Pilgrimage

• Christ Church Cathedral
• CTV Earthquake Memorial Park
• Transitional (Cardboard) Cathedral
• Oxford Terrace Baptist Church
• Durham Street Methodist Church
• Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial

• Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House, Christchurch
• Rāpaki Church, Lyttelton Harbour
• St Luke’s Anglican Church, Little Akaloa
• Ōnuku Church, Akaroa
• Church of the Holy Innocents, Peel Forest

17 — Mackenzie District

• St Patrick’s Church, Burkes Pass
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo

18 — West Coast

• St James Anglican Church, Franz Josef

19 — Otago

• St Patrick’s Church and Mary MacKillop Cottage, Arrowtown
• St John’s Presbyterian Church, Arrowtown
• St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru
• Kotahitanga Church, Moeraki
• Watkin Memorial, Karitāne

Dunedin City Walking Pilgrimage

• Knox Presbyterian Church
• First Church of Otago
• St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral
• Thomas Bracken Plaque
• Salvation Army Plaque
• A prayer
• Rongo Stone Memorial, Dunedin

20 — Rakiura / Stewart Island

• St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Oban

21 — Rēkohu / Chatham Islands

• Maunganui Stone Cottage

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