Cu Da Pagoda - Linh Minh Tu

Cu Da Pagoda - Linh Minh Tu

Cu Da Pagoda dates back to the 17th century. Font name: Linh Minh Tu. Cu Da Village is the name of one of three villages Khuc Thuy, Khe Tang, Cu Da, in Cu Khe commune, Thanh Oai district, City. Hanoi. Of these three villages, Cu Da is the oldest. This place is not only known for its two traditional occupations of making vermicelli and soy sauce, but also for its architecture. Outside the village gate and hamlet gate, villagers today still preserve ancient communal houses, pagodas, temples and some houses with hybrid French-style architecture from hundreds of years ago. Cu Da Pagoda's literal name is Linh Minh Tu, built a long time ago but no one remembers exactly when. According to the remaining epitaph, the pagoda occupies a good feng shui position: behind is a pile of old mountains like that, to the east is a gathering of residents, on the left is the Dinh family street, on the right is a temple worshiping the Tutelary God, in front There is Nhue river. In the spring of Chinh Hoa 16 (1695), Cu Da Pagoda, with 3 compartments and 2 wings, was restored for the first time by Master Thich Duy Nghiem and Chief Ly Trinh Dang Long. In the fall of the 32nd year of Tu Duc (1879), the pagoda was expanded by Master Thich Tinh Doan on a larger scale than before, including 5 front halls and 3 back halls. The current abbot of the pagoda is Venerable Thich Tien Dat, Standing Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha. In Decision No. 06 QD/BVHTT dated April 13, 2000 of the Ministry of Culture and Information, Cu Da pagoda was ranked as a national architectural and artistic relic. On November 2, 2014, Cu Da Pagoda inaugurated a new restoration. The pagoda has since continued to complete the project with 2 stone wells inside and outside the front yard, and a side gate on the west opening to the land with the village fields. The eastern side gate connects to the main walkway towards the railway bridge. The pagoda's main gate is a narrow three-door gate, facing south, looking through two large Muom trees to the Nhue River. Visitors enter the pagoda yard and then pass three more ancient trees to reach the dragon steps of the main pagoda, with a statue of a pair of elephants kneeling on stone pedestals on both sides. The front hall is built with 5 wooden doors with table tops, gabled ends, connected to the upper palace in the shape of a "Ding letter", on both sides there are side doors leading into 2 corridors running along the upper palace and then extending to the rear hall. On the right side of the main pagoda there is the Ancestral Hall parallel to the school, each with 5 rooms; Behind is the tower and entrance to the guesthouse; In front is a 2-story communal house with 8 floors and 16-column roof, with a large bell tower overlooking a small 3-compartment house with 10 assorted back steles, and further away is a temple worshiping the Thanh Hoang. On the left side of the main pagoda, there is a dance hall and a statue of Guanyin Nam Hai standing in a small 2-storey, 8-roof and 4-column floor, behind the floor is the Mother House and the Monk's house. Source: Electronic information portal of Phu Dien commune, Thanh Oai district, Hanoi city.

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