Giua Communal House

Giua Communal House in Te Tieu Village is a structure belonging to the core spiritual and cultural space of the land Ancient Te Tieu, running parallel with the relics of Ha Communal House and Thuong Temple to form a solemn worship complex for the village tutelary god. The entire religious space converges the historical flow toward Hien Cong (later conferred as Dong Hai Do Nguyen Soai). He was a general with great merit in repelling the northern invaders in 1318 under King Tran Minh Tong. After he passed away on the 12th day of the first lunar month, the king issued a decree conferring him as a benevolent deity and ordered the people to build temples and communal houses for worship. The village's ancient legend records that whenever the locality encountered natural disasters or severe drought, the people's prayers at the communal houses and temples of Te Tieu were very efficacious.