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Pagodas & churches · District 3 · Ho Chi Minh City
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About
A Buddhist studies pagoda built in 1956 to 1958 in an old part of District 3, with a seven-story, 32 m bell tower.
Why go
Xa Loi was the headquarters of the Southern Vietnam Buddhist Studies Association for thirty years and the teaching site of Van Hanh University in its early years, a layer of the city's modern Buddhist history. The main hall holds 15 large paintings of the Buddha's life by the artist Nguyễn Văn Long, and the bell tower holds a two-tonne bronze bell modeled on the bell of Thien Mu Pagoda.
Good to know
The compound is small, about 2.500 m², and takes around half an hour to see. The pagoda does not publish visiting hours, so ask first if you go outside ceremony times.
On the menu
Dish names as the place writes them.
Picked and reviewed by the Tôi Là Người Sài Gòn team; nobody pays to be listed. Translated from our Vietnamese review with machine help; the Vietnamese page is the reference. Read the Vietnamese page.