Yen Nguu Communal House

Yen Nguu Communal House is in the center of Yen Nguu Village, Dai Thanh Commune. Because the ancient village had the vernacular name Ke Ngau, the communal house is also called Ngau Communal House.

Yen Nguu Communal House worships the two great kings Nguyen Bo and Nguyen Bac as tutelary deities. Yen Nguu Communal House was built on high, open ground, facing north, with Yen Nguu Pagoda immediately behind. The landscape in front of the communal house is quite open, so one can look straight out to the To Lich River.

The overall architecture includes: the Nghi Mon ceremonial gate, the Main Communal House, and the Rear Hall. Yen Nguu Communal House still preserves many valuable artifacts: two stone steles dedicated to the Rear Deities created in the mid-17th century; sets of ceremonial doors, horizontal lacquered boards, couplets, thrones, and spirit tablets in the artistic style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and a book of deity legends along with nine royal edicts conferring titles on the village tutelary deities, the earliest dated to the first year of Canh Tri (1663).

Yen Nguu Communal House was ranked by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) as a historical-cultural relic at national level in 1995.