Māngungu Mission

Māngungu Mission
A view of the front of the mission house at Māngungu Mission
Locationnear Horeke, New Zealand
Coordinates35°21′17.44″S 173°34′7.14″E / 35.3548444°S 173.5686500°E / -35.3548444; 173.5686500
Built1828
Designated1 September 1983
Reference no.75

Māngungu Mission was the second mission station established in New Zealand by the Wesleyan Missionary Society. Located near Horeke, in the Hokianga Harbour, it was founded in 1828 by the missionaries John Hobbs and James Stack after the first WMS mission station in the country had been sacked the previous year. Māngungu Mission was abandoned in 1855 when Hobbs, the sole missionary at the site, relocated to Auckland. The residence that Hobbs built and lived in at the mission has been preserved by Heritage New Zealand and is now a museum.