Mai Hien Temple

Mai Hien Temple was initially built around the Later Le period in the 17th century and has undergone many restorations and repairs during the Nguyen period and in recent years.

Mai Hien Temple is situated on a high, spacious, and airy plot of land in the village's residential area. The temple faces south. The temple gate is located to the left of the courtyard and is built in the lantern-style pillar type with two large pillars and an entrance.

The three-bay, two-wing front hall is built with closed gable walls, roofed with di tiles, and has a dinh-style ridge; the roof-supporting trusses are structured in the style of "bridge-crossing rafter". The wooden roof-supporting columns are made in the style of "upper thu - lower thach", placed on square stone bases, with a brick-paved floor. In front, the three central bays open with folding plank doors in the style of "upper lattice - lower panel". The architectural decoration focuses on the purlins and corbels with cloud patterns and leaf dragons...

The three-bay, one-wing rear sanctuary is built extending lengthwise to the rear, with one end mortised into the central bay of the front hall, forming the shape of the character “ding”. The building has closed gable walls, is roofed with traditional tiles, and has a dinh-style ridge; there are two wooden roof trusses placed on four wooden columns and walls with buttress pillars, and the trusses are made in the style of "upper purlin - lower wall-bearing bracket, the truss adjacent to the gable wall is made in the style of “bridge-crossing rafter with hidden column”. In the middle of the rear sanctuary is the altar of the village tutelary god. The entrance to the forbidden sanctuary is made as folding plank doors. The architectural decoration is simple, only smoothed, fitted, and lined.

Mai Hien Temple still preserves a collection of relics and worship objects of historical and cultural value, such as horizontal plaques, couplets, altars, dragon thrones, and spirit tablets...

The Mai Hien Temple relic was ranked as a City-level relic under Decision No. 3397/QD-UBND-2007 dated July 28, 2007.