Thanh Quang Pagoda

Thanh Quang Pagoda, also known as Nhan My Pagoda, is a city-level relic tied to the cultural and religious life of the people of Nhan My village, Hanoi. The pagoda is a place of Buddhist worship, meeting the spiritual needs of the local community. In addition to worshiping Buddha, the pagoda also has an ancestral hall, a Mother Goddess shrine, and jointly honors people who made contributions to the relic. The religious values preserved here help nurture a spirit of goodness and the tradition of “remembering the source when drinking water.”

Thanh Quang Pagoda also bears traces of revolutionary and resistance activities by local soldiers and people. During the resistance against French colonialists, the pagoda was a place for meetings, activities, and secret refuge of cadres, self-defense forces, and guerrillas. The relic was also used as a rice store serving the resistance. In particular, during the “Hanoi – Dien Bien Phu in the Air” campaign in December 1972, Division 361 placed its command bunker at the pagoda.

Those imprints make the value of Thanh Quang Pagoda in both cultural-spiritual and revolutionary-historical terms. Visiting the relic, tourists have the opportunity to learn about local traditions and the contributions of Nhan My village in the cause of defending the Fatherland.