Jade Emperor Pagoda Chùa Ngọc Hoàng
Three halls at 73 Mai Thị Lựu
Three temple halls at 73 Mai Thị Lựu: walk the wooden statues, open 7:00–17:30. About 300 statues fill a compound of 2,300 square metres. Lưu Minh, from Guangdong, built it around 1892–1900, and it was renamed Phước Hải Tự in 1984. On the 1st and 15th of the lunar month the hours run 5:00–19:00. Ask before you photograph inside.
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The pink gate and the 玉皇殿 board
Photo: Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0
The address is 73 Mai Thị Lựu, Tan Dinh Ward, District 1. Other names are Điện Ngọc Hoàng and Phước Hải Tự. The 1994 ranking is a national architectural and artistic monument. Lưu Minh, dharma name Lưu Đạo Nguyên, built it. Thích Vĩnh Khương brought it into the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in 1982.
Photo: Wolfgang Weber · CC BY 3.0
Three halls. The front holds the door gods, the earth god, and the tiger general. The center holds the Jade Emperor, Nam Tào, Bắc Đẩu, the Medicine Buddha, Chuẩn Đề, and Huyền Thiên Đại Đế. The rear holds the ten kings of hell, the matchmakers, Kim Hoa Thánh Mẫu, and Quan Âm. Giác Lâm is a different ward and a different century. Weekday morning is the quieter hour. The photograph is the gate and the 玉皇殿 board.
Getting there and around
Buses 18, 93, and 150 go to Điện Biên Phủ, Đinh Tiên Hoàng, or Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, then you walk. From here it is about 3.1 km to the opera, 2.6 km to the post office, 2.5 km to the cathedral, and 2.7 km to the palace.
If the night is in the centre, search centre hotels.
By bus
Buses 18, 93, and 150, then a walk on narrow Mai Thị Lựu.
From the cathedral
About 2.5 km.
Hours and fees
- Hours
7:00–17:30 every day. On the 1st and 15th of the lunar month, 5:00–19:00.
- Closed
Open every day.
- Admission
Check on arrival.
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