Quỳnh Đô Pagoda (Linh Thông Tự)

The Sino-Vietnamese name of Quỳnh Đô Pagoda is Bạch Minh Tự, or Linh Thông Tự, located east of Quỳnh Đô Village, Đại Thanh Commune, Hà Nội City. This is the land where relics and artifacts of ancient Vietnamese people were discovered at the Thông Pagoda site more than 2,700 years ago. The pagoda was built on high, dry ground, facing southeast; in front is Quỳnh Đô Communal House, near the Tô Lịch River. Thus Quỳnh Đô Pagoda is a riverside relic, with the layout of the communal house in front and the pagoda behind, following the 'deities in front, Buddha behind' style.

At Quỳnh Đô Pagoda, in addition to the statue system, there are several valuable artifacts such as horizontal plaques, couplets, and ceremonial curtains hung in the Front Hall and Upper Hall, a bronze bell in the Patriarch's House, and two stone steles. Establishing a school and prior agreed matters engraved in the first year of Thiệu Trị (1841) and Founding of Linh Thông Tự engraved in the eighth year of Khải Định (1923).

During the resistance war against the French, Quỳnh Đô Pagoda was a secret base and meeting place for the Party cell and revolutionary cadres. Both Quỳnh Đô Communal House and Pagoda were the site of a medical station providing emergency treatment for wounded soldiers during the 60 days and nights of fighting to defend the capital, 'Determined to die for the Fatherland to live,' in 1946.

Quỳnh Đô Pagoda was ranked by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) as a Historical and Architectural-Artistic Relic at national level in 1989.