The group that later formed the Palmerston North branch of the Anglican Church Embroidery Guild commenced meeting informally at St Peter's Church in September 1951. Mrs R L Bennett, who had trained with the Royal School of Needlework, visited Palm...

Creator:      Anglican Church Embroidery Guild, St Peter's Church
Date:          1951 to 1959

The first St Peters Anglican Church opened in July 1902. It was designed by Mr Larcomb and built by Mr Griggs for ₤410, on Ruahine Street across from the Broadway Avenue intersection. The original church was replaced by the present St Peters in 1961.

Date:          June 1952

The Ashhurst Methodist Church was originally built at 52 Cambridge Avenue. The first service was held on 14 March 1886. In 1911, it was mounted on wheels and relocated to 57 Bamfield Street by William Melverton's traction engine. On 15 October 201...

Date:          circa 1912

St Mary Magdalene Church was designed by the Anglican diocesan architect Frederick de Jersey Clere in the Gothic Revival style. Construction began in 1897 and the building was consecrated in 1900. It was Ashhurst's second Anglican church, replacin...

Creator:      Wilson
Date:          circa 1930

A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 1963

A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 1963

A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 October, 1959. "The first New Zealand Seventh-day Adventist laymen's congress was opened in the Opera House last night by the Deputy-Mayor (Cr. D. T. Spring). The con...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          380 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1959-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of the Chapel of St Michael the Archangel Orthodox church. After World War 2, a large group of displaced persons from Europe settled in Manawatū, bringing with them t...

Creator:      Tanya Kopytko
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 21, 2024

The interior of St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date:          March 2000

A veiw of Jerusalem and the Whanganui River. St Joseph's Church is in the centre of the frame.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          Jerusalem
Date:          March 2000

The Rātana movement was established by Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana in the early 20th century.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          Waipounamu Street, Rātana
Date:          March 2000

St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem on the banks of the Whanganui River. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date:          March 2000

St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem on the banks of the Whanganui River. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date:          March 2000

St Joseph's Church in Jerusalem on the banks of the Whanganui River. The church was designed by Thomas Turnbull and constructed in 1892. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1888.

Creator:      John Wheeler
Place:          5050 Whanganui River Road, Jerusalem
Date:          March 2000

This image shows the interior of St Paul's Presbyterian Church on Victoria Avenue, Whanganui. The memorial plaques on either side of the organ commemorate Rev. David Hogg and Rev. J. Treadwell and were installed in September 1897. The building sho...

Creator:      William James Young
Date:          circa 1897 to circa 1913

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Central Baptist Church celebrates its quasquicentennial, 125 years since it started. The article includes highlights from its history, historical details of church ...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 26, 2019

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard. Church Organ pipes being installed at the St. Peter's Church. Another image of the pipes was published on 26 June, 1963.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1963-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 December 1962, "Yesterday Pastor Ian Travena officiated at the double wedding of Misses Alison and Joan Rusco, both from Tauranga. Above are the two couples as they ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Ferguson and Morris Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 21, 1962

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 December 1962, "Christmas lilies growing in abundance at the home of Mrs Honey will brighten the Ascot Street Baptist Church for Christmas. Mrs Honey is seen with th...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          December 21, 1962

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 February 1961 "The Awapuni Anglican Church built at a cost of £18,000, was dedicated by the Bishop of Wellington (the Right Rev. H.W. Baines, M.A.) last night. After ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          College Street?, Palmerston North
Date:          1961-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 October 1958: "Bishop E.J. Rich, assistant to the Primate, dedicated the St. Oswald's Anglican Church in the Takaro district on Saturday. The photograph shows Bishop ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Kingswood and Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          October 13, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 February 1961 "Since the scaffolding has been removed from the tower of the new St. Peter's parish church the interest by many passers-by has been drawn to the striki...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

A group photograph at the Seventh Day Adventist Oroua Missionary School in Longburn.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940s

The current brick building is the third church to be constructed on the site since 1875. In 1905, Archdeacon C Coleridge Harper commissioned Frederick de Jersey Clere to design a new church. Clere had designed over 120 churches in New Zealand in h...

Creator:      B. Turner
Place:          Church Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1963

A book providing a history of the Longburn Combined Church in celebration of the 100 anniversary of the church. Included in the history are church activities and clubs, lists of Ministers, organists, baptisims and Sunday School teachers, and remin...

Creator:      Longburn Combined Church
Place:          Longburn
Date:          1989

Blueprint of The First Church of Christ Scientist with drawings for Ground Floor; Foundations; Longitudinal Sections; Side Elevation; Rear Elevation; Cross Section and Front Elevation.

Creator:      L G West Son and Mornibrook
Place:          409 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1932

Blueprint of The First Church of Christ Scientist with drawings for the new Sunday School Building. Contains setting out and electrical plan; foundation plan; front and side elevation.

Creator:      James Walker
Place:          409 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1955

Palmerston North’s first Roman Catholic church was erected in Broadway (near Berryman’s Lane) in 1877. It was replaced in 1890 by the first St. Patrick’s Church, which in turn was replaced by this building in 1923-25 on a new site..

It was design...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          197 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          July 2020

Rangiātea Church in Otaki, New Zealand was the oldest Māori Anglican church in New Zealand. In 1848, Te Rauparaha who had just returned to Otaki from Australia, issued the challenge of building the church to the chief of Te Wehiwehi, who accepted....

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Kapiti District
Date:          unknown