Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda (Chùa Vĩnh Nghiêm)

Although there are plenty of pagodas in Ho Chi Minh City, as I have mentioned a few times recently, most of them are pretty quiet; which could lead to inner peace, or you might just get sleepy from boredom. Do not get me wrong; I enjoy my temples as much as the next guy but I can only watch turtles play and incense burn for so long. If you could use some adventure in your pagoda life, it might be time for a visit to a pagoda where something is going on: Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda (Chùa Vĩnh Nghiêm) in District 3. It is also one of Vietnam Popular Destinations for Vietnamese people and foreign tourists.
 

 
 

Sitting next to the canal at the end of Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street which is one crowded street in Ho Chi Minh city, Vinh Nghiem looks like your ordinary Buddhist pagoda, albeit a large one. This place which is one of Vietnam Popular Destinations was built in 1971 based on the design of architect Nguyen Ba Lang. The area of the complex is somewhere in the range of 8,000 square meters. Look for the 25-metre tall Devotee Relic four-storey Tower, built in 1982, situated behind pagoda.  It’s a modern place and was one of the first pagodas in town to be made with concrete, which is one of the reasons the complex is so large.
 

 

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From VietnameseFood.com.vn