Tay Phuong Pagoda is located on Tay Phuong mountain, Yen village, Thach Xa commune, Thach That district, Hanoi, or Sung Phuc Tu is a unique temple with many valuable ancient Buddhist statues. Coming to Tay Phuong Pagoda, tourists also enable to admire the beauty of mountainous area from the top of mountain higher than 100 meters, diving in fresh air, and blow their mind with sophisticated architectures in here.

Based on the mountain from low to high, Tay Phuong Pagoda was built in the Tam character style, consisting of three parallel temples along each side of the mountain, taking 1.6m apart from Ha, to Trung, and Luu pagoda. Although each pagoda wears separate architectural styles, Ha, Trung, and Luu pagoda still preserve a harmonious and delicate appearance among the lush forests outside.

Each building has two levels of layered roofs: the top of the roof is ingenious engraved the storax leaf, the roof at the bottom layer is shaped a rectangular square painted in five colors, such as the color of the robes on the rattan wood to make square more regularly. The pagoda has soaring curved corners resulted from the delicate complexity of two main types of wood and earthenware, with esthetic highlights in form of flowers, leaves, and phoenixes, reaching up to 2.2m. Around the roofs of the three buildings are carved delicately in the shape of leaf. The walls are built entirely of Bat Trang brick, and wooden columns, carved lotus are on the green rock, which embroider the spiritual beauty of Tay Phuong Pagoda.

Not only famous for its unique architecture, Tay Phuong Pagoda is also preserving unique works of religious sculpture including sculpture, reliefs and statues. Most of the leopards, antique paintings, arbor, longboard … made of wood in the pagoda are processed by handful artisans carved the familiar image of the Vietnamese people such as: dragon, phoenix, tiger … The author of these sophisticated sculptures are the village carpenters in the Tong Nua, Chang Son traditional village that is the most reputable carpentry village in North area of Vietnam.

The most prominent feature of Tay Phuong Pagoda is the statues. In the pagoda, there are more than 70 statues along with the bas-reliefs, mainly carved with gold-plated jackfruit wood, such as the Three Buddha statues, the Tam tan statue, the Tuyet Son statue, the Maitreya Bodhisattva statue, Van Thu, and Pho Hien Bodhisattva statue, … Most of them are carved higher than the height of real people, being carved in the mid of 19th century. Tay Phuong Pagoda is also well-recognized for preserving the most typical character of Vietnamese sculpture, La Han, in the 18th century, a remarkable Vietnamese religious work of post-Le Vietnamese art.

Annually, tourists to Tay Phuong Pagoda have opportunities to divide in the special festivals from 6 to 10 in March in the lunar calendar, and experience the worship, a traditional value of Vietnam, recognized by the Ministry of Culture as a National Historic-Cultural Site in 1962.
Let’s experience spiritual beauty of Vietnam at Tay Phuong Pagoda!