Cống Hạ Temple, Đặng Village, Hồng Sơn Commune, Hanoi City

Cống Hạ Temple belongs to Đặng Village, Hồng Sơn Commune, Hanoi City. The temple faces northeast, looking out over a large lake; around the temple are gardens and trees, giving the relic site a solemn and ancient appearance.

The temple was built during the Nguyễn dynasty but absorbed many unique architectural elements of the Lê dynasty. In 2023–2025 the relic was restored and embellished spaciously, while still retaining the old artistic architectural features.

The temple has a đinh-shaped architecture, including the đại bái (main worship hall), ống muống (connecting hall), and hậu cung (rear sanctuary). The Đại bái has five bays with two side wings and is built in a four-roof style. At the two ends of the ridge are stylized curled-tail kìm ornaments; the low building form carries the post-Lê style, recalling the silhouette of the ancient Vietnamese stilt house.

The temple worships a Trần dynasty general named Đôn Ngưng, who fought the Yuan-Mongol invaders under King Trần Nhân Tông. Cống Hạ Temple was a stop where troops rested and trained before going to fight Ô Mã Nhi's army and winning a great victory. Cống Hạ is where Đôn Ngưng, after returning victorious, built a military post and held a feast to reward those who had merits with him and, according to tradition, where he died. To commemorate the hero who rendered service to the country and people, the people of Cống Hạ built a temple for eternal incense and offerings.

Over a long period of existence, Cống Hạ Temple has preserved many rare relics such as two imperial edicts of the 4th year of Cảnh Thịnh and the 9th year of Khải Định, a statue of the deity, horizontal plaques, a pair of cranes, a set of censers, horses, swords… contributing to the pride of the villagers. Through learning about and appreciating the artistic values of our ancestors in the past, those artifacts help raise awareness of beauty among the living, helping them value and preserve more the quintessence left by our ancestors. The worship artifacts at Cống Hạ Temple are invaluable materials from the Lê and Nguyễn periods for us today to understand thoroughly the creative talent, social level, production base, and social consciousness of earlier times. The state of preservation of the relic: the precious relics are carefully preserved; daily a temple caretaker looks after incense and cleaning; the worship objects are arranged beautifully and coolly, and entering the temple is very solemn.

With typical architectural and artistic values, the Temple was ranked by the City People's Committee as a city-level historical relic under Decision No. 664/QĐ-UBND dated June 30, 1998.