Tohu Heritage does not list a category until a real place fills it. Rather than showing empty categories with nothing behind them, each one activates only once a captured site belongs to it, so every category you see live on the map actually leads somewhere.
Today, a fourth category opens for the first time: Religious.
Religious: Karakia
Churches, chapels, synagogues, and sacred grounds. Places built for worship, reflection, and community gathering across faiths. The first religious site published on Tohu Heritage is the Corban Mausoleum in Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, resting place of the family who arrived from Lebanon in 1892 and planted the Henderson vineyard that grew into the largest winery in the country.
Karakia carries more than the English word suggests: prayer and incantation, but also a gathering of spirit. It reaches past any single faith, which is what this category is meant to hold.
Two categories remain closed for now: Māori Heritage and Commercial. Each will activate the same way, the moment a real place is captured and published. See the full list on the Heritage Categories page.
