Quan Am Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City

The Quan Am Pagoda is situated in Cholon the district 5 of HoChiMinhCity. Cholon´s greatest architectural treasures are its temples and pagodas. Many of them stand on or around the Nguyen Trai. Built in the beginning of the 19 th century the Quan Am Pagoda is dedicated to A Pho, the Queen of Heaven. Inside there are a lot of altars, figurines of ceramic, panels which depict scenes of the traditional court life. It is a very colourful pagoda full of incense spirals and vietnamese people who do their prayers.

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