Thang Tam Communal House


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The Thang Tam’s Local Gods Communal House is the most special feature of fishermen in Ba Ria Vung Tau. According to legend, it built in Minh Mang dynasty (1820-1840) to worship three men who set up 3 villages of Thang in Vung Tau. Visiting to this site in which tourists could enjoy the story of these three men who led threevillages’s habitants to keep and protect their lives. It’s architecture with the Tam Quan gate, the sanctum, the public commune, the meeting room and the scene for military opera stage that engraved skillfully. The sanctum roofed with the Ying yang tiles, there is the shape of “a couple of dragon joking upon the moon” and the pillars engraved the shapes of dragons. This commune stores twelve pieces of sanction of Nguyen dynasty.

On the right of Thang Tam commune is the Whale tomb where there is a set of great bones of whale picked up from 100 years ago and on the left is Ngu Hanh Temple (5 elements of the space: metal, wood, water, fire and the earth)


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