The pagoda having the highest main shrine of Vietnam in Saigon

The pagoda having the highest main shrine of Vietnam in Saigon

Van Duc of more than 50 years old became the pagoda which has the highest main shrine in Vietnam with 43.5 m.

Van Duc Pagoda (To Ngoc Van Street, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City) is located about 15 km from the center of the city, built in 1954. The pagoda is located on the large land of a rich family in the donation area. donate both land and house.

After accepting the house and land, the abbot kept the status quo, only to make front of the temple and named Van Duc. After many repairs, in 2004, the pagoda started the monk's retreat with the Patriarch. After two years, the main hall was completed, with a height of 43.5 m from the roof, and set up by the Vietnam Book of Records as the "Highest Buddhist Hall in Vietnam". The main hall is high, but there are only two floors, the ground floor is the lecture hall and the upper part is the main hall, where the Buddhist activities of the pagoda.

The chedi of the pagoda is structured as a large tower with nine floors, on top of which is a lotus flower, a flower attached to Buddhism. Roof tile roofs saved blue, on the tip of the knife fitted stylized cotton flower pattern.

The interior of the Buddha with spacious space, above the ceiling is nearly 40 meters higher. This place honors the Buddha and the three Buddhas. In particular, the center of the inner power is a Bodhi tree relief and the landscape of the Ni Lien Meditation. The record book of Vietnam has set up "The Compass of the Biggest Bodhi Tree in the Country".

The ceiling is decorated with blue sky, white clouds. Ceiling height of nearly 40 m, making visitors feel like watching the vast sky.

Around the inner courtyard there are many window panes that look like white clouds, each with a hanging Buddha image. The windows next to the windows are the wind "Buddha".

Outside, each corner of the main hall is decorated with Buddha statues, the sound, the god of France, dragon ... Photos stylized lotus flowers are decorated in many places in the pagoda.

All doors and stairs, corridors ... are made of white steel, cement, granite ... with sophisticated architecture that is traditional but modern.

In late 2017, the pagoda was built with a statue of Buddha of about 15 m high, in monolithic stone in front of the main hall. In front of the statue there is a Lotus Flower, inside the statue of Guan Yin Bodhisattva. Van Duc Pagoda is one of the large religious architecture in Ho Chi Minh City. Apart from its aesthetic value, it is also a model for visual arts in modern architecture.