Nhuệ Communal House

1. Location
Nhuệ Communal House is located in Nhuệ Village, Hoài Đức Commune, Hanoi City. It is one of the typical ancient communal houses of the former Đan Sơn region, closely tied to the cultural and religious life of local people across generations. Not only a community gathering place, Nhuệ Communal House is also a site preserving the distinctive historical, cultural, and religious values of the Hoài Đức area.

2. Architecture and Landscape
Nhuệ Communal House features the traditional village communal house architecture of the Northern Delta with a solemn, ancient worship space. Through many historical changes and several restorations, the communal house still serves as the center of community cultural life for the villagers. Located amid an old residential area, it contributes to the distinctive cultural space of an ancient Vietnamese village in the former Đan Sơn region.

3. Historical figure
According to local hagiography, Nhuệ Communal House worships three tutelary deities: Lý Trung Quân Thượng Tướng Đại Vương, Trình Đô Hộ Hiển Ứng Đại Vương, and Đông Hải Nhuận Trạch Đại Vương. These deities belong to the well-known cult of the Six Great Deities of the Đan Sơn region.
Legend has it that during the reign of King Lý Nhân Tông, when the famous general Lý Thường Kiệt led troops against the invading Song and Champa forces, he rested his army in this area and dreamed that the deities appeared and asked to grant spiritual support to help the country fight the enemy. After the victory, the court conferred titles on the deities as tutelary gods and had the people build a temple to worship them.
In addition, the communal house also worships the six Gia Giò, six people from six clans in the village who bravely sacrificed themselves while resisting the Black Flags to protect their homeland. Admiring their courage, the people set up memorial tablets in the communal house to remember the merits of their ancestors.

4. Festival
The Nhuệ Communal House festival is held annually on the 14th and 15th days of the third lunar month, with the 15th being the main festival day. Traditionally, this is an occasion for people to remember the merits of the tutelary deities and pray for national peace and prosperity and abundant harvests.
The festival has a long history, estimated at hundreds of years. During the war period and the years after land reform, the festival was interrupted. In 1992, it was restored and has been maintained annually to this day. Since 2010, every five years the locality has organized a grand ceremony on a larger scale, attracting large numbers of local people and visitors.
Typical rituals of the festival include incense offering, traditional ceremonies, and the procession of the tutelary deity’s palanquin. This is an occasion for the community to jointly preserve and pass on the distinctive cultural and religious values of their homeland.

5. Relic ranking
With its outstanding historical, cultural, and folk religious values, Nhuệ Communal House was ranked as a City-level Historical-Cultural Relic by the Hanoi City People's Committee under Decision No. 882/QĐ-UBND dated February 27, 2026.