Huỳnh Cung Pagoda (Sùng Phúc Tự)

Huỳnh Cung Pagoda has the Sino-Vietnamese name Sùng Phúc Tự, located on high, spacious land at the western end of Huỳnh Cung Village, Đại Thanh Commune, Hanoi City, with its main architecture facing south.

According to legend, the pagoda's founding is associated with the legend of the village's tutelary deity, Hùng Bác Đại Vương, during the reign of the 17th Hùng King. The oldest artifacts remaining in the pagoda are two stone statue pedestals and stone footings decorated with lotus-petal motifs, bearing the artistic style of the Lý dynasty, in the Upper Hall. With these artifacts, it can be affirmed that the pagoda was built quite early and is one of the oldest pagodas still existing in the area.

The pagoda's grounds include: the Tam Quan gate, courtyard, garden, stupa tombs, main pagoda, two corridors, Ancestor Hall, and more. The pagoda has a fairly rich system of Buddhist statues for worship and preserves a number of stone steles, a bronze bell dated to the 7th year of Thành Thái (1895), along with many horizontal plaques, couplets, incense burners, ceramic vases, horizontal plaques, and the Hậu Phật Bi Ký stele erected in the 9th month of the Vĩnh Hựu era (1735–1740).

Huỳnh Cung Pagoda was classified by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) as an Architectural and Artistic Relic at national level in 1989.