Located about 3km from the center of My Tho City, Tien Giang Province, Vinh Trang Pagoda is one of the largest pagodas in the western province, attracting cross-country visitors to the scene.

Vinh Trang Pagoda, also known as Vinh Truong Pagoda, has a history of building many ups and downs and experiencing many changes and revisions. What is special about Vinh Trang Pagoda is that it is built according to the general architecture, interspersed between Eurasian architecture, French, Roman, Thai, Mien and Cham. However, the core architectural style still bears the Vietnamese tradition.

Monk Thich Hue Phap tu at Vinh Trang Pagoda shared: “The characteristic of the pagoda is the East-West combination. This is the main hall, the characteristic of the East, there are tigers, opposites, and diaphragm Looking from the outside, we see towers like Ang Coat Temple, Anglo-Cambodia in Cambodia. At the living room, architecture in the French period shows in sculpted patterns bearing bold Western architecture. Ceramic tiles from Italy have good material, over 100 years but colors are very brilliant.

Vinh Trang pagoda is designed in the form of Quoc characters, including 4 consecutive spaces including pre-street, the main hall, the ancestral house and the rear house with a total area of ​​about 14,000 m2. Inside the main hall and the house, the style of the Chinese people still retains the Vietnamese architectural features. The connection between these two spaces is the space with a rock in the middle. How to decorate the natural landscape here with ancient trees shady, lotus pond poetic bold Vietnamese identity. So on the full moon or 1st day, Vinh Trang Pagoda always attracts tourists to pilgrimage.

Le Thi Bich Huong, a tourist who is an overseas Vietnamese in Italy, said: “I am very impressed with the architecture of this temple. The temple has the architecture of many places, the East as well as the West, combining very beautifully. But whatever you say, even though you have imported foreign culture, this temple still retains the most beautiful features on the inside of the temple. ”

Coming to Vinh Trang Pagoda, visitors also admire more than 60 Buddha statues with delicate lines made of wood, copper and earthenware. The statues of Guan Yin, Amitabha, and The Chi were cast in the 19th century, accompanied by seven security guards imbued with Bat Tien, the Moon and the Sun. This is considered an invaluable treasure of Vinh Trang itself. In particular, the temple also has a statue of 24m high Maitreya Buddha standing on the sky to create a peaceful and peaceful feeling for visitors.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuoc, tour guide at Vinh Trang Pagoda added: "What is especially the Buddha statues carved in here, often we enter the temple will see Buddha or Guan Yin, or Bodhisattva, but In this temple you can see, there is more of the King of Hell, and God ... They all carved and worshiped in this temple. This is one of the things I see especially at this temple. This is because people want to keep everything of the South to bring into the temple. ”

In 1984, the Ministry of Culture - Sports and Tourism recognized Vinh Trang Pagoda as a national cultural and historical area. In 2007, Vietnam Records Book Center established a record "Vinh Trang Pagoda - Vietnamese temple". With a unique architecture full of art, people in the Southwest come here not only to see a big temple but also to send the aspirations of life and spread themselves in a peaceful, peaceful space. net. /.