Mieng Ha Pagoda (Dai Bi Tu)

Mieng Ha Pagoda, with the Sino-Vietnamese name Dai Bi Tu, is located in Ung Thien Commune, Hanoi City. It is a traditional Buddhist structure with representative values in history, artistic architecture, religious belief, and community cultural life. In the cultural life of Mieng Ha residents, the pagoda is not only a space for Buddha worship and Buddhist ritual practice but also a place that preserves village memory, layers of Han-Nom documents, and many traces associated with repairs, meritorious donations, posthumous patron recognition, commemoration, and gratitude over many periods. Through a long process of formation, existence, and change, Mieng Ha Pagoda still preserves relatively intact its system of architecture, worship statues, steles, bell inscriptions, horizontal plaques, couplets, ritual objects, stupa tombs, memorial steles, and documents related to the Buddhist life of the local community.