Mieng Ha Communal House

Mieng Ha Communal House, in Ung Thien commune, Hanoi city, is a traditional religious work of typical value in history, architectural art, Thanh Hoang worship, and community cultural activities. In the village life of Mieng Ha, the communal house plays the role of a center for worshipping the two tutelary deities Cao Son Dai Vuong and Quy Minh Dai Vuong, and is also a place closely associated with community memory, traditional festivals, and important rituals of the village. Through its long formation, existence, and transformation, Mieng Ha Communal House still preserves many historical, cultural, and artistic values, expressed through its architectural system, ritual objects, horizontal lacquered boards, parallel sentences, scrolls, dragon thrones, and sacrificial vessels; together with a system of valuable Han-Nom documents such as jade genealogies, deity records, royal edicts, and traditional festivals transmitted through many generations.

With those typical values, Mieng Ha Communal House is an important component relic in the Mieng Ha communal house - temple - pagoda relic complex, and was ranked as a National Architectural and Artistic Relic in 1993 by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism). This affirms the outstanding value of the relic in the local cultural heritage system, while also setting the requirement to continue preserving, documenting, managing, and promoting the values of the village communal house in the current context.