Xuan Trach Temple (Mother Temple)

The temple worships Lady Truong Trinh Ngoan, mother of Quoc Lang the Archery God. Legend has it that she was a beautiful and talented woman who lived in Xuan Trach Hamlet and was chosen by the 17th Hung King as a secondary consort. She was given the title Hung Trieu De Tu Hoang Hau (Empress, Disciple of the Hung Dynasty).

Xuan Trach Communal House and Temple are two religious works whose histories are closely linked; the temple dates later than the village communal house. The temple's architecture is small and compact.

Xuan Trach Temple today is located with its back to the communal house, facing northeast. The temple reuses part of the old architecture and has been repaired and expanded. The temple's ground plan also follows the 'đinh' (T-shaped) layout; at the front is an arched porch, the outer face has a flower wall with reliefs and paintings above, and below the pillar base curves into three doors. Outside the gable bay are two shrines with roofs of curved tubular tiles. The front worship hall has three bays and two narrow side bays, built in the style of closed gables with 'tay ngai' (arm-shaped) details. The truss frames are simple, with crossbeams passing over hidden columns and resting on walls. The rear sanctuary has two bays and one side bay with four roof trusses structured like those of the front worship hall. The decorative art in the temple architecture includes chrysanthemum-vine motifs, lotus petals, and seal patterns on the beams and purlins of the wooden structure. Some lime-plastered motifs of the four sacred creatures are on the flower wall outside the porch, with kìm-head images on the roof ridge.

At present, the temple still preserves a number of precious relics, such as: a worship throne, a set of dragon altars, the eight precious objects, and a command plaque made of wood, lacquered and gilded, with artistic decoration in the Nguyen style featuring tiger-tally, four sacred creatures, dragon heads, four precious plants, and interlaced flowers and leaves; there is also a full set of ceremonial trays and ancestral tablets dating from the 19th century, described as finely beautiful.

Xuan Trach Communal House - Temple, like many riverside villages, usually has a water procession festival. This is one of the unique traditional festivals of Dong Anh land. The Xuan Trach village festival, with its traditional rituals, has become a customary event held to pray for favorable rain and wind and for the villagers to enjoy 'people in good health and prosperity'.

The Xuan Trach Communal House - Temple relic complex was ranked as a National-level Historical-Architectural and Artistic Relic under Decision No. 1460/QĐ/VH/1996 dated June 28, 1996.