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Modern · Buddhist · Vietnam
Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City · 10.7904°, 106.6823°
Gautama Buddha (with Manjushri and Samantabhadra)ModernVietnamese traditional, built in concrete
Sacred since
1964 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
begun 1964
Modern
History & significance
A large pagoda in District 3 of Ho Chi Minh City, begun in 1964 by the monks Thích Tâm Giác and Thích Thanh Kiểm and named for an 11th-century predecessor in Bắc Giang province. It was the first in Vietnam to render traditional Vietnamese temple architecture in concrete, and its seven-storey, 40 m tower was built with help from the Japan–Vietnam Friendship Association.