Giong Mot Communal House - Pagoda

Giong Mot Communal House is located in Dong Xuyen village, Thuan An commune, Hanoi. The communal house bears the vernacular name of Dong Xuyen village; formerly Dong Xuyen village was in the alluvial land area together with Phu Dong, Phu Duc, and Dong Vien villages under Phu Dong canton, Kinh Bac garrison, later under Phu Dong commune, Tien Du district, Bac Ninh province.

The communal house worships the Holy Mother (mother of Saint Giong), Duc Dong Thien Vuong (Saint Giong), and Duc Dai Vuong Nguyen Non (a loyal official of the Ly dynasty).

According to villagers, Giong Mot Communal House was formerly one of the largest and most beautiful communal houses in the region. But due to river conditions, the south bank of the Thien Duc River eroded, and in 1954-1955 the erosion reached the communal house area; some columns and beams drifted into the river. The communal house was no longer intact, so the people dismantled and stored it, and the worship objects were kept and well preserved.

In 1967, Dong Xuyen village transferred its administrative activities to Dang Xa commune. In 1979-1980, the people were moved from outside the Duong River bank to inside the dike and resettled at the new location in Dang Xa commune as it is now. The people dismantled the old ancestral house of Giong Mot Pagoda and brought it to the current location to establish a new communal house, and afterward built a pagoda next to it. The worship objects were brought to the communal house and pagoda for worship. Since then, Giong Mot Communal House has undergone two major restorations, in 1998 and 2019, using budget and socialized funds.

Giong Mot Communal House was ranked as a national historical-cultural relic by the Ministry of Culture and Information in 1995.