Hai Chau Communal House in Danang city

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Location: The Hai Chau Communal House lies in Phan Chu Trinh Street, Hai Chau 1 Ward, Hai Chau District, Da Nang City.

Characteristic: The Ministry of Culture and Information has admitted Hai Chau Communal House as a national historic vestige on the 12th July 2001.

A stone work product and a 100-year-old Bodhi tree stand in the front of the communal house. The Chinese words “Hai Chau Chanh Xa” (Hai Chau region) were carved on the three-door temple gate. Also, Hai Chau Temple, a forefather venerating house, two temples of ancestors lie in the center of the area. Kinh An Tu which has 42 ancestral tablets worshipping 42 families of Tinh Gia District, Thanh Hoa Province is on the right side of the temple and Nguyen Van family is on the left. In the year of Tan Mao (1947), those families came after King Le Thanh Tong to move to the south. After that, the Han Giang village (previously Quang Nam, currently Da Nang) was set up by the King. Then they assembled in the in Hai Chau Village, placed the basis and added to development Da Nang City.

IThere is a bronze bell on which some Chinese words are carved in In Hai Chau Communal House’s bell tower. According to a translation at present, the temple was reconstructed in the 5th year of Minh Mang’s reign (1842). In 1825, the King by his royal edict presented the name Phuoc Hai to the pagoda. The bell of Hai Chau was constructed in a lucky day in the 13th year of Minh Mang’s reign (1832).

According to history researchers, Hai Chau Communal House or Phuoc Hai pagoda is the place where Lord Nguyen Phuc Chu on his Quang Nam eastern trip dropped by and rested there in the year of Ky Hoi (1719). Then the residents built an altar venerating the King in the pagoda.