The whare is a special place, usualy based on an ancestor. The top bar of the whare represents the backbone of the ancestor and the beams the stray off of the main beam represent the ribs. Most whare’s, if not all face north, towards where the sun rises. Matua Grant explained the a whare is a place of peace, not war and that is why we have to take our shoes off before we enter.
There is a statue outside of the three iwis
These represent Ngati ranginui (Top), Ngati pukenga (Middle) and Ngai te rangi (Bottom). These all came from a tribe and ended up here. There is also a rope intwined between all of them which has all of the
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