Marae DIY - Tapu Te Ranga Marae

Don’t judge a book by its cover. Growing up here you meet a lot of different people, some quite weird, some you don’t know are weird, and some who seem weird but aren’t weird.

– Hirini Sannyasi, son of Bruce Stewart, who grew up at Tapu Te Ranga marae

I want my kids to have that same feeling when they come here — especially my mokopuna; that they belong.

– A woman who lives at Tapu Te Ranga

Like the proverb by Cliff Whiting, the marae is everything. It’s your place of learning, from preschool to university. Your sustenance, your place of prayer, it’s your everything, your marae.

– Pare Sannyasi, who lives at Tapu Te Ranga marae