Mỹ Giang Communal House, Hát Môn Commune

MỸ GIANG COMMUNAL HOUSE – NATIONAL-LEVEL HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL RELIC

Mỹ Giang Communal House is located in Mỹ Giang Hamlet, Hát Môn Commune, Hanoi City, on a high, spacious plot of land in the middle of the village. This is an important religious structure, associated with the formation history and cultural life of the Mỹ Giang community.

The communal house is dedicated to Đỗ Năng Tế, a historical figure whom local tradition reveres as a person who assisted the Hai Bà Trưng in the uprising against the Eastern Han army. Through generations, the image of Đỗ Năng Tế has become a symbol of loyalty, patriotism, and the community's tradition of protecting the homeland.

Mỹ Giang Communal House has a grand architectural scale, comprising multiple connected buildings, typical of the traditional communal house space of the Northern Delta. The architectural layout combines the Main Hall and the Lower Hall, forming a harmonious whole that both serves the worship of the Village Tutelary God and provides a venue for community cultural activities.

Over time, the communal house has still been preserved by the community as an important part of village memory. Historical materials kept at the relic contribute to affirming the long-standing existence and value of the communal house in local cultural life.

With its outstanding historical, cultural, and architectural-artistic values, Mỹ Giang Communal House was ranked as a National-level Historical and Cultural Relic under Decision No. 1570/QĐ-BVHTT dated September 5, 1989.