Sacred Tran Temple Nam Dinh

Tran Nam Dinh Temple (Loc Vuong Ward, Nam Dinh City) is a place to worship 14 Tran Dynasty kings, their families and officials who assisted them. This place is famous for its incense offering ceremony at the beginning of spring and the August festival (August 20 of the lunar calendar) every year.

Along with Pho Minh Pagoda, Tran Temple is a typical and especially important relic in the Tran Dynasty cultural heritage system in Nam Dinh and the whole country, and was ranked as a special national relic in 2012. The formation and existence of Tran Temple relic is closely associated with historical figures of the Tran Dynasty. During the 175 years of reign (1225 - 1400), the Tran Dynasty built Dai Viet into a prosperous nation with the peaks of martial arts and civil governance, creating a brilliant culture and civilization. Therefore, in the Tran Temple relic area, historical figures of the Tran Dynasty are respected and worshiped by the people, from kings to ancestors, queens, princesses, famous ministers, famous generals...

The Tran Temple relic site in Nam Dinh includes Thien Truong Temple, Co Trach Temple and Trung Hoa Temple, which are of equal size and design. Through the five-door gate is a rectangular lake. In the middle behind the lake is Thien Truong Temple.

Thien Truong Temple is located in the center of the Tran Temple relic site in Nam Dinh. The temple was built in 1694 on the foundation of the Thai Mieu and Trung Quang palace of the Tran Dynasty, and has been restored many times.

Thien Truong Temple is a place to worship the Tran Dynasty family. At the highest place are the tablets of the Tran Kings.

A stone pillar with typical Tran Dynasty architecture with thick, strong lotus petal patterns at Thien Truong Temple.

Co Trach Temple was built in 1894. The stele records that in 1868, people dug up a broken stele in the East with the words "Hung Dao Than Vuong Co Trach" (the old house foundation of Hung Dao Vuong). Therefore, when completed in 1895, the temple was named Co Trach, a place to worship Tran Hung Dao and his family and generals.

Some relics related to the Tran Dynasty are displayed at Trung Hoa Temple. Among them are drainage pipes and fish-nose tiles found under the ground of the Tran Temple relic site.

The campus of Tran Temple relic site in Nam Dinh is covered with green trees.

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