Visit Phuong Liet Village Communal House

– Phuong Liet communal house was built in a relic complex including communal houses, pagodas and shrines. The communal house is located adjacent to the residential area, looking towards the East – South direction.

– Previously, Phuong Liet village (Vong village) was located in the south of Thang Long citadel, belonging to Hoang Mai canton, Thanh Tri district, Thuong Tin government, Son Nam Thuong town. In the 12th year of Minh Menh (1831), it was changed to Hanoi province. In the 3rd Dong Khanh year (1888), this area belonged to Hoang Mai canton, Hoan Long district, Hanoi province, then it belonged to Phuong Liet ward, Dong Da district. Since 1997, the relic belongs to Phuong Liet ward, Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi city.

– To the monument, we can go from Hanoi center along Giai Phong street about 2km, to Nga Tu Vong overpass, turn right to Phuong Liet ward People’s Committee. Phuong Liet Communal House is located opposite the Ward People’s Committee.

– Phuong Liet Communal House is a religious architecture built a long time ago, worshiping the village’s Thanh Hoang Cao Son Dai Vuong and Tich Lich Hoa Quang (Hoa Quang worshiping god). Most of the legends still preserved are that Cao Son god named Nguyen Hien (Hien Cong), along with his younger brother Nguyen Sung (Sung Cong) is the second god in the Tan Vien Son Thanh Trinity. have many merits to help the people, help the country fight the enemy and overcome nature.

According to the elders in the village, Phuong Liet communal house has been facing south since ancient times. In front of the communal house there is a large well and a gathering pond, a place to pray for happiness and longevity along with rituals and pillars. large, the cylinder face is covered with very beautiful lime mortar couplets, but has since been lost.

– Currently, the scale of Phuong Liet communal house includes many construction items: Nghi Mon pillar, Ta Mo, Dai communal house with the shape of the letter “Nhat” (一) and a number of auxiliary architectural works behind together with system of courtyards and gardens surrounding the relic.

– The communal house of Phuong Liet was built very simply, with only 2 pillars made of lime and mortar to create the entrance to the communal house. Next is the Dai Dinh building, which is built in the style of a wall with 5 compartments, 2 flowing roofs with ri-tile roofs. Inside, the wooden architecture is uniformly structured in the style of a gong stacked on top of a ram, and a trap on the ground with 4 rows of columns. The decorative pattern here is simple, mainly smooth planks close to the edge, and the running edge only creates durability for the roof support frame. In the nave inside the Great Communal House is the most solemn place, here is arranged an incense altar, above it is placed the altar of worship and the tablet of the village tutelary god.

– To the left of the communal house is the Ta Mac house, a vertical house with 3 compartments, 2 flowing roofs with ri-tile roofs, which is the place to prepare sacrifices to the Citadel.

– In addition to typical historical values, Phuong Liet communal house was also a revolutionary base in the resistance war against the French colonialists. At the end of 1944, Phuong Liet communal house and pagoda were secretly operated and developed a Viet Minh nest. Dinh is a communication station, receiving materials for propaganda of the Viet Minh Front. After the Japanese coup d’etat, this was a secret study place, gathering forces to draw up plans to seize power in the village as well as in the region. On August 19, 1945, at the courtyard of the communal house of the Viet Minh, gathered the masses of the people to hold a meeting to declare the power. The two houses of the communal house, Ta Huu Mo, were then used as the working headquarters of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee, later the headquarters of the Provisional Resistance Committee.

During the 9-year resistance war against the French colonialists, communal houses and pagodas were places to travel, hide weapons and documents of the rangers. Once, when the French captured our ranger, they drove the people to the communal house yard to force recognition of the officer’s face. Despite being threatened and suppressed, no one pointed out the report.

With the values ​​of architectural history and historical values ​​of the resistance war, Phuong Liet communal house has been ranked as a historical and architectural monument by the Ministry of Culture and Information in 1993. Socio-political organizations, the Elderly Association, people’s relatives and authorities at all levels pay attention to protecting, preserving and embellishing.

In 2001, Thanh Xuan district invested funds to restore the Imperial Palace – which was destroyed by American bombs during the years of resistance against the US (1965-1972). Phuong Liet Communal House is completing the dossier for attaching the signboard of the Revolutionary – Resistance War relic on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi (2010).