No. 12 Thanh Nien Street, Yen Phu Ward
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An Tho Temple is now number 12 Thanh Nien Street, Yen Phu Ward, Tay Ho District. An Tho temple worshiping Empress Minh Duc - mother of Prince Linh Lang - son of King Tran Thanh Tong has many great achievements in fighting the enemy Nguyen - Mong. Prince Linh Lang was conferred by the king as: Dam Dam Dai Vuong, Uy Do Linh Lang Dai Vuong (Great King of West Lake area). After this religious belief model development temples worship Mau Lieu Hanh.
Yen Phu ward was formerly Yen Phu village, the original name is Yen Hoa, Quang Duc district in the capital of Thang Long in Le dynasty. This is an ancient Vietnamese village with a long history of Thang Long land, to the early 19th century, Yen Hoa village belongs to Vinh Thuan district, Hoai Duc. In 1831, Yen Hoa village belonged to Hanoi. In 1841, by the name of Mrs. Ho Thi Hoa, the mother of King Thieu Tri, Yen Hoa was renamed Yen Phu.
Yen Phu Temple, An Tho temple and Tran Quoc Pagoda. These three relics are located adjacent and have a close relationship with each other. Yen Phu Temple worshiping Uy Linh Lang Dai Vuong, born in 1241 and his two siblings Vuong Duy Dai Vuong and Vuong Ba Dai Vuong. Legend says Linh Lang is the son of Minh Duc Hoang Hau - the royal court of King Tran Thanh Tong. Linh Lang learned from the very intelligent and have great interest in Buddhism, wanting to be a monk but not approved by the king. One day, Prince Linh Lang pretended to be an ordinary citizen who went out to seek master's studies. Only a short time after, Uy Linh Lang learned Buddhist scriptures. After knowing about this, the king called him back to the capital, granted to the farm in Yen Hoa village to continue studying the Buddhist teachings.
In 1287, Nguyen - Mong invaders pulled troops to invade our country for the third time. Lang Lang recruited thousands of soldiers, claiming "Heavenly army" to join forces with Hung Dao King Tran Quoc Tuan and other generals to defeat the enemy in Van Kiep, Bach Dang... After the enemy was destroyed, Uy Linh Lang was conferred as Dam Dam Dai Vuong, governed area Dam Dam (West Lake today).
After defeating Nguyen Mong, Prince Linh Lang abandoned everything to be a monk like the common customs of the Tran Dynasty. At 36 years old Uy Linh Lang died on 8/8/1300. The king assigned Yen Hoa villages (now Yen Phu), Nhat Chieu (Nhat Tan) and other villages - where the Lang Ling was fighting the invaders built his temple.
Today, in Yen Phu temple, there are still table made in the year of Le Gia Tong, stating: "Yen Phu temple worshiped three royal princes of the village namely Uy Linh Lang Dai Vuong and two brother, Vuong Duy Dai Vuong and Vuong Ba Dai Vuong, the Great Three Kings. They are the children of Empress Minh Duc Tran. The tablet also noted Ao Va lake was a small island surrounded by trees. An Tho temple worshiping Empress Minh Duc (mother of three princes in Tran dynasty, headed by Uy Linh Lang Dai Vuong). It is said that the An Tho Temple used to be An Tho palace, which is the residence of Empress Minh Duc. Three of her sons are now worshiped in Yen Phu temple (near An Tho temple).
So the three venerable Yen Phu village: Uy Linh Lang Dai Vuong, Vuong Duy Dai Vuong and Vuong Ba Dai Vuong, who are the national heroes who have merited the enemy invaders Nguyen Mong invaded and had time to live, working in Yen Phu village with his mother Minh Duc outside Thang Long.
According to the traditional customs of our nation, the children are close to their parents to take care of them at old age. The three brothers, Linh Lang Dai Vuong, Vuong Duy Dai Vuong and Vuong Ba Dai Vuong living nearby An Tho palace are understandable. In the Ly, Tran, Le dynasties in the West Lake, which had the palace as the resting place of the kings due to the fact that this beautiful area was near the capital Thang Long. So from an An Tho palace where Empress Minh Duc (at the time of life) became An Tho temple after her death is also customary in many temples and shrines. Later, An Tho Temple also worships Lieu Hanh - one of the four immortals in Vietnam.
An Tho Temple was built in the center of Yen Phu Ward, facing West Lake, Thanh Nien Street and Tran Quoc Pagoda, an ancient and famous pagoda of Tay Ho District.
According to the elderly people in the village, the temple was built in the west, formerly a large scale temple, originally was a shrine to worship the mother of Linh Lang Dai Vuong. Relics worship on the subject of beliefs, simultaneously also on the cultural (spiritual). Based on the cadastral map of 1960, the land lot number 644 of P38 map with the parish number 1075 Quan Thanh, the commentary is the public land worshiping the gods and a space of spacious culture square, back leaning on the road, On the lake side, connect the organic and historical relics of Yen Phu - Tran Quoc Pagoda - An Tho Temple to form a unique relic and landscape complex in the southeast corner of West Lake.
An Tho Temple is an architectural religious creed to worship Mau, and has been to protect the peaceful life of the villagers. The worship of the gods in the An Tho Temple expresses the spirit of "drinking water to remember the source" of the people here in inheriting, preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values of the father. An Tho Temple worshiped Empress Minh Duc - the wife of King Tran Thanh Tong, who was born Prince Linh Lang has many great achievements in the fight against foreign invaders brought independence and freedom for the country. God has merit for the people to water so should be cherished and protected.
The temple is classified by the Hanoi People's Committee as a historical and cultural vestige in Decision No. 1775 / QĐ-UBND dated 13 April 2014. /.
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