NINH BINH

Bai Dinh Pagoda

Location: Located in the hills of the village of Pharmaceutical Biology, Gia Sinh Commune, Gia Vien District, Ninh Binh, Ninh Binh city 12km and 5km from Hoa Lu, beside the Trang An Ecological Tourism.
Features: Bai Dinh Pagoda is one of the largest Vietnamese temple architecture Namvoi monumental, voluminous but imbued with oriental colors.
Zone Buddhist architecture populations Bai Dinh Pagoda has an area of ​​700 hectares wide, above the mountains Bai, architectural items simulated textured Buddhist altar in a traditional temple. Construction items on the terrain from low to high, according to the main road leading 5: Three local offices, bell tower, temple Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, the French shrine is a building owners and top Tam.

From the hotel's main gate into the interior to Tam. Internal triple curved roof 3 in the roofing tile four tubes Bat Trang ceramic dark brown, two rings at the door and the door Vo Huu Dharmapala put two statues, weighing 10 tonnes to 5m high. Especially in the cabinet with 4 columns Three wooden quartet set, each column diameter 13,85m 0,85m tall. The two sides left and right of the inner Tam is two corridors, all 230 spaces surrounding the triangle's electrical architecture, the total length of the corridor is 1.052m. In two corridors located 500 Arhat statues monolithic, yet not the same object, each 2.3 m high statue.

Next to the bell tower with octagonal shape style matches her husband, 3 arched roof. In the bell tower hangs a bell weighing 36 tons was cast in Hue, built entirely of wood quartet set, 100% wooden architecture. Structure includes 7, a roof deck, high 14,8m, 41,8m long, 17.4 m wide. Of power between, on high pedestals placed correlation Bodhisattva, many eyes, many arms, cast in bronze, weighing 40 tons, 9,57m high.

Next is the French electricity building owners throughout with reinforced concrete wood imitation very massive, monumental 2 curved roof, 30m high, 47,6m long, 43,3m wide. 5 space power, wide nave 13.5 m length, 4 times the two sides, each 8m long. In temple buddha statues (French owners) are very large cast bronze, weighs about 100 tons and in power longer time between placing a wooden church collapsed, 8,7m in length, 4.7 m wide, high 0 , 8m, kneeling style fish stomach.

The Three buildings located on a hill high above the sea is 76m. This is a massive large buildings, monumental, colonial architecture and curved roof has 3 floors, including 12 4-side roof, 34m high, 59m long, 40m wide, covering an area of ​​approximately 3.000m² building includes 7 time ; in the temple three statues Tam The (past, present, and future), cast in bronze, each statue weighs about 50 tons, 7.2m high. Three roof with two rows of long neck lifting effect of building height to Tam, simultaneously get light to moderate aeration. Four sides of the building Tam background are built low stone walls, three levels according to the slope of the hill and built many stone steps to go up, to create space for Tam The monumental building, solemnly.

In addition to the items mentioned above, in this population, there are many other items such as wells Ngoc Ngoc wells were rebuilt from the old Bai Dinh pagoda, shaped the moon, with a diameter of 30 meters wide, 6 meters depth, wellhead building stone railing; Bodhi 9-storey tower, built of stone Buddha Park ...

Bai Dinh Pagoda is not only attracts many Buddhist monks and nuns are everywhere, but also attract many tourists destination of pilgrims, sightseeing.

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