Location: Vinh Trang Pagoda is located in Nguyen Trung Truc Street, My Phong Commune, My Tho City, 3km from the city centre.
Characteristics: It is the greatest pagoda of Tien Giang Province and was recognized as a national historical and cultural relic in 1984.
Vinh Trang Pagoda was built in 1849 in the total area of 14,000m², with the architecture of Han character 国 (Quoc), including front shrine, sanctum, ancestors’ house and back shrine.
The splendid but simple features of this Buddhist construction are a result of the harmonious fusion of Asian and European architectural styles. The pagoda has Renaissance-style patterns, Roman-style arches, and Japanese enamelled tiles. However, the pagoda’s internal architecture is also imbued Vietnamese traditional sculpture art.
The pagoda stores over 60 precious statues made of wood, bronze, terracotta, of which a collection of 18 Arhats sculpted in 1907. These works of art represent the pinnacle of sculpture in the Mekong River Delta. Besides, there are three big Buddha statues in the pagoda’s campus, including 18m-high Amida Buddha statue, 20m-high Maitreya Buddha statue, and Shakyamuni Buddha statue. The pagoda also has a 150kg-weigh bell cast in 1854, more than valuable 20 landscape paintings, horizontal lacquered boards, parallel sentences.
Tien Giang
Add: 25, 30 thang 4 St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3874 400/ 3874 410
Add: 10, 30 thang 4 St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3870 875/ 3870 876
Add: 101 Trung Trac St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3872 009
Add: 69, 30/4 St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3979 979
Add: 40/5 Le Thi Hong Gam St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3970 085
Add: 33 Thien Ho Duong St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3977 883
Add: 390 Thoi Binh Hamlet, Thoi Son Commune, My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 6519 000
Add: 94 Ap Bac St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3855 888
Add: 36/3 Highway No 1, My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3856 158
Add: 11A2 Ly Thuong Kiet St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3885 232
Add: 127/4 Le Thi Hong Gam St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3971 177
Add: 28 Highway No 50, Ward 9, My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 6252 152
Add: 219 Road 870B, Hamlet 2, Trung An Commune, My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3953 344
Add: 184 Nguyen Thi Thap St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3856 699
Add: 61, 30 thang 4 St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3874 324/ 3876 919
Add: 67- 30/4 St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3872 543
Add: 01 Nguyen Hue St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3974 858
Add: 1 Truong Dinh St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3882 264/ 3882 263
Add: 2 Thu Khoa Huan St., My Tho city
Tel: (84-273) 3971 806
Add: 10, St. 30/4, My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3882 352
Add: 281B Ly Thuong Kiet St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3886 282
Add: 194D Ap Bac St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3874 440
Add: 2 Thu Khoa Huan St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3887 555
Add: 31/5 Le Thi Hong Gam St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3873 449
Add: 1/32 Thai Sanh Hanh St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3872 287
Add: 58A Nguyen Trung Truc St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3973 373
Add: 1058 Tran Hung Dao St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3871 162
Add: 101 Ly Thuong Kiet St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3975 997
Add: Le Thi Hong Gam St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3970 237
Add: 102A Ly Thuong Kiet St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3872 040
Add: 3 Lanh Binh Can St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3872 008
Add: 279 Tet Mau Than St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3873 756
Add: 1 Lanh Binh Can St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3874 567
Add: National Highway 1, My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3855 441
Add: 196A Ap Bac St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3872 742
Add: 171B Xom Dau St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3888 989/ 3876 000
Add: 44 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia St., My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3883 044
Add: Thoi Son Island, My Tho City
Tel: (84-273) 3895 324