Ha Pagoda is named Ba Ha Tu in Long village, Nha Long commune, Phu Binh district. This is one of the few remaining ancient pagoda relics in Thai Nguyen province. The pagoda is located on a gentle hill, more than 2.5ha wide, around the temple there are many ancient native trees creating a quiet, poetic scene. Currently, the pagoda still preserves many relics of historical value with a unique artistic style through the Le – Nguyen dynasties.
The pagoda has an architecture in the style of a public letter with 7 front halls and 4 upper halls, with an area for the Ancestor and Mother Church. The front hall has 7 compartments, 16m long and 5.5m wide. The upper building has 4 compartments, an area of 70m 2 . The Ancestral Church and the Mother Church include 7 compartments with an area of 90m2 . Tam Quan has a quite unique match stacking architecture. The upper floor is smaller, with eight roofs with roof tiles, wooden roof corners with sharp, curved roof blades. The whole block is like a giant lotus, looking from a distance it looks majestic and majestic. Ha Pagoda was restored in 1716, 1889, 1991, 1994, 2002 and 2014. Although it was repaired, it did not affect the original landscape and architecture of the pagoda.
In the temple, there are still 40 ancient and majestic statues, made of wood and covered with gilded lacquer. The statues are meticulously and elaborately shaped with rustic beauty full of humanity, reaching the pinnacle of traditional statue art. Ha Pagoda has 28 stone pillars, typically 2 hexagonal stone columns 1.6m high, on 6 stone pillars engraved with Chinese characters of the 12th year of Vinh Thinh (1716) recording the temple’s history and names of people who have made merits and honors. build a temple. The delicate carving shows the high level of stone carving art. In addition to stone columns and ancient statues, Ha Pagoda also preserves many rich artifacts such as: 2 speeches, 1 horizontal statue with engraved themes of the four spirits and the four quarters of the 1st Thanh Thai era (1889), 6 sets of ancient couplets praising the fairy tale Ba Ha from the 1st and 3rd Thanh Thai titles (1891),
The architectural and artistic relic of Ha pagoda was ranked as a national relic in 2004. Every Tet holiday, Ha Pagoda together with a number of relics of Phu Binh district such as: Communal House – Temple – Cau Muoi relic cluster, Phuong Do communal house, Ho Lenh communal house, Kha Son commune relic cluster…became a complex of historical – cultural relics attracting thousands of domestic and foreign tourists to enjoy culture and spiritual tourism ./.
Source: Collected internet.