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- Wharenui comment "A wharenui (literally \"big house\") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a marae. Wharenui are usually called meeting houses in New Zealand English, or simply called whare (a more generic term simply referring to a house or building).Also called a whare rūnanga (\"meeting house\") or whare whakairo (literally \"carved house\"), the present style of wharenui originatpopoed in the early to middle nineteenth century.".