YEN PHU PAGODA

Yen Phu Pagoda (Thanh Van Ancient Temple, Khanh Hung Temple) is a national-level historical and cultural relic, ranked in 1988. The pagoda is associated with Buddhist nun Phuong Dung during the era of the Trung Sisters and bears traces of many important historical events of the nation. In the spring of the Ky Dau year, 1789, the pagoda was a stationing site for the Tay Son insurgent army during the Ngoc Hoi – Dong Da victory. During the resistance war against the French, the pagoda was a secret operating base of the Party cell and the Viet Minh movement; during the anti-American period, it was a logistics warehouse serving the capital's troops, becoming a typical revolutionary historical base of the locality.
The pagoda features late Nguyen-era architecture and was renovated and rebuilt in 2008 and inaugurated in 2011. The total campus area is more than 4,100m², the construction area is about 1,800m², and the inner temple area is 1,260m²; it consists of 3 three-story buildings and 1 basement arranged in a straight-line (Nhat-character) layout; there are 2 three-roofed triple gates on the west and south sides.
The pagoda currently preserves many precious relics, such as: 1 genealogical record, 23 imperial edicts from the Le – Nguyen periods, 2 stone steles (1891, 1929), a bronze bell named “Thanh Van Tu Chung” from 1890, a large plaque inscribed “Khanh Hung Tu” from 1902, and 33 ancient statues from the late 19th century. In front of the pagoda courtyard there is still a stupa tomb garden – a remaining trace of the ancient pagoda.