President Ho Chi Minh Memorial House

The President Ho Chi Minh Memorial House is located within the grounds of the ancestral house of One-Roof Pagoda (Boi Am Temple), in Thuy Khue Hamlet, Quoc Oai Commune, Hanoi City.

During the period from February 3, 1947 to early March 1947, One-Roof Pagoda was where Uncle Ho directly directed the resistance war against the French. Many important policies, decrees, and directives were discussed and decided by Uncle Ho together with leaders of the Party Central Committee and the Government here. In the evening of March 3, 1947, Uncle Ho left Quoc Oai for Viet Bac to continue leading the resistance. After the resistance won, in October 1954, President Ho Chi Minh and central agencies returned to the capital. He also visited the people of Sai Son Commune and One-Roof Pagoda two more times on May 19, 1957 and May 19, 1959.

The Uncle Ho Memorial House was originally the ancestral house of One-Roof Pagoda in Thuy Khue Hamlet, located at the foot of the mountain, with a back door leading up the mountain and to Uncle Ho Cave (named by local people). The house lies right at the foot of the mountain, below the main pagoda, parallel to the front hall of One-Roof Pagoda. The house has five bays with gable walls. The two end bays are used as rooms, the three middle bays are left open and airy, the front is a system of folding doors, and a small door is opened in the rear wall in the left bay to go up the mountain. The small house lies peacefully in the cool green space of the mountain shadow and rows of trees, highlighted by the yellow words on a red banner: 'Great President Ho Chi Minh lives forever in our cause.'

Since 1984, the government and people of Sai Son Commune have invested in and restored the ancestral house area of One-Roof Pagoda into the Uncle Ho Memorial House to serve visitors' sightseeing needs. The end bay on the right side of the Mother Goddess Hall has been restored to its original state as during the time Uncle Ho stayed and worked. All artifacts here are original. They include a wooden table, on which is an old typewriter and an oil lamp, as Uncle Ho used to work. There is a wooden bed placed against the wall, where Uncle Ho used to rest, a pair of rubber sandals, a document bag, a photo of Uncle Ho visiting One-Roof Pagoda in 1959, and some of his handwritten notes.