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Silver worker church (Le Chau Hoi Quan)

Silver worker church (Le Chau Hoi Quan)

Le Chau Hoi Quan, the Silver Craft Church in Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City, is located on a 805m2 area, at 586 Tran Hung Dao B Street, Ward 14, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City. This is a house that has existed for more than 100 years, the earliest church of silver workers built in Saigon and the Southern region. Author Vuong Hong Sen wrote: "Nguyen Trai Street goes out of the road of the governor of Phuong to meet Le Chau pagoda. This is a" pagoda "to worship the masters of the group of workers and the owner of the kiln kiln. In the late 19th century, Saigon was an important industrial park. Saigon craftsmen are skilled and are organized into "workers" and "workers". Particularly, the profession of silver workers (today's kimming industry) is very developed. Making the State, there are companies: domestic silver workers, Chinese silver workers, Huu Trung silver workers ... and private gathered into silver kilns. Around Cho Lon area, there are more than 30 silver kilns practicing. Dat Dat - Grateful to the Career. A number of reputable gamblers in Cho Lon have mobilized to donate from silver kilns in the region and throughout the eastern provinces, the Southwestern region, the little, many people, they have contributed to buying a square land in the waterway (Rue des Marins, Tran Hung Dao B Street today). The ancestor church was started from 1892 to 1896, completed. The ancestor church has undergone many major restoration in 1920, 1934 and 1946. The last major restoration was in August 1968, the entire meaning and major repair in the main hall due to damage. The main hall is built in the structure of three vertical spaces, there are two rows of columns running from outside to inside, brick walls, and yin -yang tile roofs. The layout in the main hall is simple, there is no statue. The main field of the main hall placed three worshiping exams decorated with dragon, phoenix, flowers, and elaborate ... elaborate. In the middle is a large church in place of worshiping items and tablets with the words "ancestors" written in a beautiful, beautiful way and painted in gold. The two sides are two small worship examinations, the right to worship the two words "Tien Hien", the worship on the left of the word "Hau Hien". From outside to inside the columns, there are 6 couplets and 9 diaphragm with content focusing on the topic of gratitude to the Patriarch, praising the prosperous development of the silver worker. All the diaphragm, couplets, bao lam ... are painted with golden lacquer with high quality of paper with high golden age, so they are glossy and clear, although they all have a long year. In the ancestral church, there are some quite unique artifacts: a large drum with a height of 1.10m, a diameter of 0.60m, the drum is not equal to the wooden pieces but a large round wooden tree. Accompanying the drum is a 1m high bell, a diameter of 0.50m, on the bell for the year of the Goat (1895) by the Hanoi workers and clearly stated the full name of 14 people in the profession of silver worker to pay homage to the ancestor. Especially, 4 stone steles are placed opposite at two walls of the main hall. There are plates dating back 1895, there are plates for 1916 and 1920. On the steles engraved their names, name, local name, the amount contributed to build the ancestral church. Thereby we see a disciple of silver worker throughout the South of the province: Tay Cong, De Ngan, Tra Vinh, Ben Tre, Can Tho ... Chinese and Vietnamese people. Besides the names of Han Nom characters such as Thinh Duc, Kim Phuoc, Duc Phat ... there are also very brand names such as: Nam Suong Huan, Seven except ... According to the legend of this Silver Master Church, built to worship a native of the Tran family (unknown name), from the outside of the area, the original worker in the palace, learned from the silver worker from the two high -ranking people of Vietnam. "First First Patriarch" by King Gia Long Phong in 1810) and "Second Master" Cao Dinh Huong (1773 - 1821, the brand "Second Master" by King Minh Mang Phong in 1821). The death anniversary of the Kim Hoan Hoi Quan was held on February 7 (lunar calendar), which was the death anniversary of the "Second Master" Cao Dinh Huong. The annual worshiping day here gathered a large number of disciples of silver workers from all over the Southern region of the province. The death anniversary is held for three days from 6 to 8 February (lunar calendar). More than a century has passed, the ancestral church has been preserved by the Board of Directors and the disciples of the silver worker. The house is not only a normal place to worship the tradition of "religious religion", "Drinking water to remember the source" of Kim Hoan practitioners but also bold unique cultural features about the history of struggle as well as the development process of the ancient Saigon and Southern regions. For that reason, "Le Chau Hoi Quan" has been ranked by the Ministry of Culture and Information as an architectural and artistic monument under Decision No. 1811/1998/Decision - Ministry of Culture and Information on August 31, 1998. Source of electronic portal in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City.

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