Nhan Ly Pagoda

Nhan Ly Pagoda was founded by the ancients on a beautiful plot of land, within a campus of ancient trees that are green and cool all year round. The relic faces southwest and includes the Front Hall, Upper Hall, Patriarch's Hall, Mother Goddess Hall, and a system of gardens surrounding the relic. In front of the Front Hall is a row of transverse buildings erected on the old foundation of the pagoda's three-entrance gate. This is a building with three bays and two side wings, structured with two rows of column bases. The Front Hall consists of five bays in a two-tier, four-roof architectural style. The roof is covered with pointed tiles; in the center of the ridge are two dragons flanking the sun, with curled-tailed dragons and catfish whiskers, their entire bodies inlaid with porcelain shards. Inside the Front Hall, the roof trusses are structured in different styles. The trusses of the central bay and side bays are structured as “upper stacked beams with gia chieng truss, middle plank, rear seven-veranda”; the trusses of the gable bays are structured as “upper con me, middle plank, rear seven-veranda”. The parts of the Front Hall trusses are clearly divided by the system of column-base rows. The central bay of the Front Hall is used for worship, with statues of the two Dharma Protectors placed on either side. The statue of Duc Ong sits on the left side of the Front Hall; the statue of Thanh Tang sits on the right side of the Front Hall.

Connected to the central bay of the Front Hall is the Upper Hall, forming a mallet-handle shape and the character đinh (T-shape). The roof truss of the Upper Hall is joined in the style of “upper stacked beams, lower seated brackets”. The Upper Hall is a solemn place where tiers of statues are arranged.

Within the entire pagoda grounds, apart from the Buddha Hall, the Patriarch's Hall and Mother Goddess Hall have simple architecture, mainly gable walls with sealed ends and crossbeams and trusses, used to arrange statues and other ritual objects. In addition, the pagoda has a garden where a three-tiered burial stupa was built as the resting place of monks who were former patriarchs and abbots of the pagoda.

The pagoda was ranked as a historical-cultural relic by the People's Committee of Ha Tay Province in 2007./.