Yen Xa Communal House - Temple - Pagoda Relic Complex

In the Ward area, there is the Yen Xa Communal House – Temple – Pagoda Relic Complex, which was ranked as a national-level historical relic in 1990.

Yen Xa village, whose Sino-Vietnamese name is An Xa and whose ancient names were Trang Bui and Do Bui, was formerly located at Go Quan Den; later, because the land was narrow, the villagers gradually moved to the higher land east of the Nhue River, the village's present site. Yen Xa village is now divided into 2 residential groups: Residential Group No. 1, Yen Xa, and Residential Group No. 2, Yen Xa, Thanh Liet Ward, Hanoi City.

Yen Xa is an ancient village established before the Ly dynasty. In front of the village is the Nhue River. The villagers worked hard to clear land and build a village shaped like a square earthen citadel, each side nearly 400 m long and 2 to 2.5 m high, planted with densely interwoven bamboo so that “sparrows could not fly through.” On the north side was the “Chui” gate, the south side the Sau Gate, the west side the Dong Gate, and the east side the Gieng Gate; the village rampart served to prevent floods and defend against bandits and robbers.

Formerly, besides farming, Yen Xa village also had embroidery and lace-making. This craft dates from the French colonial period, about more than 100 years ago. In the past, Yen Xa planted only one crop in the high fields and one crop in the low fields, so during the off-season the whole village did embroidery and lace-making; the embroidered and lace products were bought by the French and taken to France and exported to European countries. When automated machines appeared, this craft gradually declined. Yen Xa also had a number of other crafts such as wooden clogs and musical instruments; today there is also the making of fashionable young women's sandals in rich designs.