Nguyen Quy Family Temple

Relic name: Nguyen Quy Family Temple.

Sino-Vietnamese name: Tam Dai Vuong Tu Duong (三大王祠堂) – meaning Temple of the Three Great Kings.

Address: Belongs to Dinh Residential Group, Tay Mo Ward, Hanoi City.

Type of relic: A memorial relic to notable figures, it is the place of worship and commemoration of three outstanding great officials of the Nguyen Quy clan: Nguyen Quy Duc, Nguyen Quy An, and Nguyen Quy Kinh.

Ranking: Ranked by the Ministry of Culture (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) National-level historical relic under Decision No. 235-VH/QD dated 12/12/1986.

The Nguyen Quy Family Temple (Tam Dai Vuong Tu Duong) is the worship facility of the Nguyen Quy clan – a famous academic clan in the old Dai Mo land. This is the place to commemorate three typical notables of the clan, including Nguyen Quy Duc (1648–1720), Nguyen Quy An (1673–1722), and Nguyen Quy Kinh (1693–1766), three consecutive generations who made many contributions to the Le Trung Hung dynasty and were all respected and worshipped by the people.

According to extant Han-Nom documents and steles at the relic, although no document recording the exact time of its founding has been found, much evidence shows that the temple was built right after the death of Tham Hoa Nguyen Quy Duc (in 1720), within the period from 1720 to 1722. A "Cong uoc luan bien" document records that villagers came to the ancestral temple to offer sacrifices to Nguyen Quy Duc in 1722, while the stone stele erected in 1736 shows that the structure was already spacious and dignified at that time, proving that the temple had been formed before this time.