Built in 1923, the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Taui St, Ngongotaha is not being used anymore and the church committee has decided it’s time to put it up for tender.
Land for the church was given to the Catholic Church by Taui Takerei, who died at age 80 in 1938 and who is buried beside the entranceway to the church.
Church finance committee chairman Eddie Dibley says one of the biggest issues was a lack of a priest for the church after numbers dwinded about 18 years ago.
“Everyone gradually shifted to St Marys and St Michaels,” he says.