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Communal house

Communal house

Than Than Tay Hoi communal house (Ward 11, Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City) has long been famous as the oldest communal house not only in Saigon but also the Southern region. Dinh Thong Tay Hoi was built around 1698, up to now more than 300 years old. The temple worships the customs of the Vietnamese god. The main god worshiped in the communal house, Dong Chinh Vuong and Duc Thanh King, the prince of the son of Ly Thai To. The Tay Hoi communal house, before 1944, was named Hanh Thong Tay village, an ancient communal house in Go Vap district. The communal house was built around 1679, now known as the oldest communal house of the ancient Gia Dinh land and the whole southern land. The Tay Hoi communal house is a communal house with an ancient structure in the South of the 19th century. The communal house still preserves almost intact the structure and construction materials of the ancient communal house. The entire communal area is located on a 5,188m2 area. Due to being encroached by a residential land, there is only about 1,500m2. The communal house turned to the east. The communal house is built in the style of Tam Quan. The yard is wide, there are some trees about 10m high. The architectural ground of the communal house forms two axes in parallel with each other: a long axis (main axis) including martial arts, main hall; A short axis (auxiliary shaft) is the headquarters. This type of architectural ground is very popular for religious architectural works in the South of the 18th - 19th century. The main hall includes: 2 rules of the house coincided in the style of "coincidence of the snail". The roof of the two houses next to each other. All have 48 columns, divided into 8 rows of columns, each with 6 columns. The four columns between the highest are 4.5m; With a diameter of 30 cm (often called "quartet") is the most important and sacred place - where the altar of the gods. The column legs in the main hall are engraved with a prism in the middle. On the roof of the main hall, there is a long -bipedal image of a green ceramic, around the main hall with brick walls. The headquarters is the office of the Board of Directors, the reception place and the sacrifices, with a horizontal size of 12m, 19m long, 4.2m high; There are 56 columns, legs of green stone columns, with 3 "coincidence of the snail"; There are planks for office rooms with the warehouse. The entire communal house roofed with yin and yang tiles, wooden truss sets with wooden tiles, brick -lined base (30 cm x 30 cm). The decoration of the Tay Hoi communal house, the most unique part concentrated at the main hall. Here the trusses and truss are carved with dragon heads and apricot branches. There are 3 bags: Bao Lam in the middle touches the topic of Lan - Ly - Quy - Phung, the two sides of the two sides touch the subject of the form - hemorrhoids. The most unique carvings are the worshiping page, exquisitely carved according to the topic of Mesopotamia Long Trieu Nguyet and Lan - Ly - Quy - Phung. There are also two worship pages, "Chung Linh Luu Tu", two couplets with coconut trunks in the main hall are valuable works of art. In the relics of Dinh Thong Tay Hoi, 37 valuable artifacts. The artifacts are artistic carvings such as Bao Lam, Hoanh Phi, couplets, and worshiping pages all retain the lines and colors of the golden lipstick of ancient artifacts, not spreading on new layers of lipstick as some other common communal houses. With the value of architectural art, history and social, communal house was recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Information as a national cultural and artistic artistic monument in 1998. Source of electronic portal in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City.

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