Christchurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square
Christchurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square
Christchurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square.
Christchurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square.
View of Cathedral Square, taken from the Warners Novotel.
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The city centre and Tuahiwi Marae, the home of Ngāi Tūāhuriri, are now linked by names. The Anglican cathedral and Tuahiwi’s church, both called St Stephens, sit on land called Whitireia. Whitireia was the house of Paekia, the ancestor who landed on the North Island on the back of a whale at Tūranga, which is now the name of Christchurch’s city library.