Cam Village communal house and pagoda, Gia Lam Commune

Cổ Bi is a commune on the south bank of the Đuống River consisting of 3 villages: Cam, Vàng, and Hội. Before 1945, the land of Cổ Bi Commune belonged to Đặng Xá Canton, Gia Lâm District, Bắc Ninh Province. Later it was named Trung Thành Commune, Gia Lâm District, Bắc Ninh Province; from 1961 it belonged to Hanoi, and in 1965 Trung Thành Commune was renamed Cổ Bi Commune.

Cổ Bi is a land of emperors with a very long history of development and establishment. In the past, this place had 99 mounds. Seeing that Cổ Bi had beautiful terrain, Lord Trịnh Cương (1709–1729) had the capital established here; in 1755, Lord Trịnh Doanh (1740–1767) had the old Cổ Bi palace renovated, intending to move the capital from Thăng Long to Cổ Bi, but the plan could not be carried out.

In the past, Cổ Bi was famous as a land of emperors, and during the resistance war against the French colonialists it was also famous for twice tenaciously resisting enemy sweeps, protecting the villages and contributing to the victory of the people of the capital.

Cam Village communal house worships two tutelary deities: Princess Ả Lã Nàng Đê, a resourceful and brave female general who helped the Hai Bà Trưng defeat foreign invaders and protect national sovereignty. She is a noble symbol and a shining example of the heroic Vietnamese woman of the Hai Bà Trưng era. The second tutelary deity is Crown Prince Chiêu Dương, a meritorious official who contributed to the country, a crown prince with a gentle nature, wise innate qualities, and love for the people, who was conferred the title Thần Tướng Đại Vương. Cổ Bi estate was where the crown prince was born, so he loved this land; when he grew up, he asked his father the king to grant Cổ Bi estate as his thang mộc fief.

Through the ups and downs of the nation's history, Cam Village communal house during the resistance war against the French colonialists was also a place that deeply marked an important historical event of the people of Cổ Bi. On the 18th day of the first lunar month in 1947, the French colonialists furiously used a military force with tanks and aircraft to devastate the village. Here, the French committed atrocities against the villagers; they shot dead more than 100 villagers and brutally destroyed the village. In this sweep, the ancient communal house that had been stately and splendid for generations was burned down by them.

In 2004, with the attention of authorities at all levels and the donations of local people, the village communal house was restored and embellished in the old architectural style, becoming imposing and spacious.

Currently, the architecture of Cam communal house includes: a three-entrance gate, the main hall (including the front worship hall and the rear sanctuary), with rows of Left and Right side houses on both sides.

Not far from the communal house is Cam Village Pagoda, whose Sino-Vietnamese name is 'Sùng Nghiêm tự', with an imposing architectural scale harmoniously planned within a tranquil natural landscape. The pagoda is structured in the shape of the character 'đinh', including the Front Hall and Upper Hall, the Ancestor worship house, the Mother Goddess worship house, and two corridor houses along both sides. The Front Hall consists of 5 bays and 2 wings, built with closed gable walls, with an interior layout of 6 rows of columns, and the roof trusses made in the 'upper stacked beams, lower flying brackets' style; in particular, the pagoda also has two nine-tiered stupas 14m high rising above the surrounding structures, giving the pagoda a solemn appearance.

At present, the relic still preserves a collection of 28 round statues created elaborately and meticulously; valuable cultural artifacts such as a stele dated to the Chính Hòa era (1783), a Cảnh Thịnh bronze bell (1800), spirit tablets, altar curtains, scrolls, horizontal lacquered boards, and others. These are perfect works of art bearing the artistic styles of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Cam Village communal house and pagoda were ranked by the Ministry of Culture and Information as a historical and architectural-artistic relic in 1996.