Van Thong Pagoda

Van Thong Pagoda, whose Sino-Vietnamese name is Dien Phuc Tu, includes the following architectural items: the entrance gate, the main pagoda, the mother goddess house, and the pagoda's living area. The main Dien Phuc pagoda faces east and consists of a front hall and the Three Jewels hall. The front hall has five bays with closed gable walls. From the three bays of the front hall, five arched doors open into the Three Jewels hall. Above the entrance doors are two large horizontal plaques. Between the doors hang couplets praising the pagoda and Buddha scenes. The Three Jewels hall is built with a vaulted roof in the shape of the Chinese character ding. Behind the main pagoda is a three-bay mother goddess temple facing the village well and the pagoda's living area. The mother goddess house's roof frame is made in the keo ke gia chieng style, smoothly planed and tightly joined. Outside the pagoda gate, right next to the village's main road, is a large ancient banyan tree giving shade. Past the banyan tree, beside the pagoda's three-entrance gate, is an ancient village well. The well is round and wide, surrounded by a wall and with steps up and down.

Van Thong Pagoda currently preserves many artifacts such as: a bronze bell 95 cm high with a mouth diameter of 42 cm, cast in the 3rd Khai Dinh year (1918); horizontal plaques; couplets; a bronze crane and candle tree; a pair of dragon trays; an altar carved with openwork on three sides with dragon, tiger emblem, and stylized lemon flower motifs - 18th-century openwork carving style.

In addition, the pagoda also has some other relics such as ceramic incense burners, lamps, candle holders, etc.; in particular, some column base plinths are being used to pave the path or buried under the pagoda's foundation; these plinths are carved in relief with 16 double lotus petals in the Tran dynasty carving style, 14th century.

Van Thong Pagoda was ranked as a historical relic by the People's Committee of former Ha Tay Province in 2000./.