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Rainaomi

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Rainaomi is a public museum in Estarisa and the former residence of Shamil Avon-El, built 1623–1626 as a retirement home for Shamil and his wife Maryam Ayapour.

The museum is dedicated to the Elwynnese and Hurmu influences and impact on Estarisa. It also includes what was once the biggest private library of the island (now public). It is located by the sea cliffs some 40 kilometres south-east of Whanitori, with beautiful views of the sea. Outside the main building, there are two gardens, one in Hurmu style, and one in Elwynnese style.

Upon Shamil's death in 1643, the property was bequeathed to his grand-daughter Suva Avon-El, with whom and whose children he had the warmest relations among his – at this time – many descendants. Suva, her husband, and their two youngest children moved there (the eldest, Ander, had already moved to university). When Suva, herself, died in 1694, the property was inherited by Javel and Pader Avon-El, the two children who grew up there. Javel and Pader shared the home with their respective families, with Pader's two youngest children Kala and Zyl being born there, until 1701, when the owners "voluntarily" gifted the property to the island authorities, as the authorities began instituting communalist ownership.

In 1707 with the fall of communalist government, the new leadership on the island gifted the property back to the Avon-El family.