Quán Trung (Vĩnh Lạc Temple)

Quán Trung (Vĩnh Lạc Temple) worships Vân Tiên Thánh Mẫu and the loyal minister Đức Trưng Túc Vương Lê Lai. The Lady Vân Tiên Thánh Mẫu currently worshipped at Quán Trung was granted honorific titles by successive kings: Mẫu nghi linh ứng, hộ quốc tý dân, trang huy, dực bảo trung hưng; and was conferred the title of Thượng đẳng thần (Superior Deity).

In November 1942, a Viet Minh cell in Vĩnh Lạc Village was established under the chairmanship of General Văn Tiến Dũng; it was followed by national salvation organizations such as the Youth, Women, and Farmers, and especially the National Salvation Youth Union... The Viet Minh cell used Quán Trung, the village communal house, and enlightened families in the village as its headquarters for meetings and activities. As a locality with an early revolutionary movement, from the middle of 1943 the Vĩnh Lạc Viet Minh base at Quán Trung in particular, as well as other sites in Vĩnh Lạc Village such as Bảo Sát Linh Pagoda and the village communal house... served as a secret operational foothold, a meeting place for Party cells and mass organizations, and a revolutionary center in the area. The homeland of Vĩnh Lạc was where comrades who later became high-ranking leaders of our country carried out revolutionary activities and directed the resistance, such as Vice President Nguyễn Lương Bằng, General Secretary Đỗ Mười, Comrade Bình Phương, Comrade Nguyễn Văn Lộc, and Comrade Trần Tử Bình... After being burned by the French colonialists in 1952, the royal edicts of investiture, worship statues, and ritual objects were all burned. In 1992, villagers together contributed to rebuild the tiled place of worship on the ancient old foundation in the style of a chữ quốc house: front hall, rear sanctuary, and two parallel connected left and right wings. In front of the Quán Trung courtyard is an ancient well; behind is a pond, arranged in the yin-yang and bagua pattern. The Quán Trung relic, with its cultural, spiritual, historical, and revolutionary traditional values, is the collective property of the villagers and is managed by the local government.

Quán Trung (Vĩnh Lạc Temple) was ranked as a relic in 2026.