YEN PHU COMMUNAL HOUSE

Yen Phu Communal House is a city-level historical relic, ranked in December 2024. The communal house worships two generals, Trung Vu and Dai Lieu, who made contributions in the Hai Ba Trung uprising and were adopted sons of Nun Phuong Dung, the first Buddhist nun of Vietnamese Buddhism.
The relic has distinctive historical and cultural value and currently preserves 23 royal edicts from feudal dynasties along with an ancient genealogy, reflecting a long tradition and honoring the merits of the village tutelary gods. Although the ancient communal house architecture was once affected by war, local people still preserve the spirit tablets and solemnly co-worship them at Yen Phu Pagoda, creating a relic complex of distinctive spiritual cultural value following the model of “Buddha in front, Saints behind.”
Yen Phu Communal House is also associated with many important historical milestones. It was once a stopover for the Quang Trung – Nguyen Hue insurgent army before the Ngoc Hoi battle in 1789 and served as a base for sheltering revolutionary cadres during the resistance period. Every year, the communal house festival is held from the 5th to the 7th day of the 11th lunar month with traditional palanquin procession rituals, contributing to preserving cultural identity and the spirit of local community solidarity.