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by Almut Albrecht
Ong-Bon-Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City
The Ong-Bon-Pagoda is located at Hai Thuong Lan Ong Boulevard. This temple was built by the Fukien Chinese and it is dedicated to Ong Bon, the god who is believed to be a guardian of happiness and virtue. Ong Bon is also the god of wealth, which is why devotees bring fake paper currency to burn in the pagoda´s furnace as an offering to him. This ritual is believed to be very auspicious and participating in it is said to bring financial blessings to the individual and his/her family. The central feature of the pagado is an ornately caved wood and gold altar and a statue of Ong Bon.
Tam Son Hoi Quan Pagoda in Cholon (Ho Chi Minh City)
The 19th century temple is a guildhall named after Sanshan (Three Mountains) and is dedicated to Me Sanh – also Mother Sanh. She is the Goddess of Fertility and is popular with women praying for conception. Thien Hau – the goddess for seafarers is also revered within the main shrine. When I visited the little pagoda (January 2015) in a small street near the Nguyen Tai, renovation work were done inside the temple. Nevertheless worshippers congregated in front of Mother Sanh´s altar at the back of the temple.
Thien Hau Pagoda in Cholon (Ho Chi Minh City)
Thien Hau is a deity of traditional Chinese religion (Taoism and Buddhism). The Temple – also called Hoi-Quan-Tue-Tanh – is located on the Nguyen Trai Street in Cholon (district 5) in Ho Chi Minh City. The roof is decorated with small porcelain figurines. The interior of the pagoda is a partially covered courtyard. Inside there is the altar of Thien Hau, incense burners and spirals. When Cantonese immigrants established the temple towards the middle of the nineteenth century, they named the pagoda after Thien Hau, also the Goddess of Seafarers. New arrivals from China would have hastened here to express their gratitude for a safe passage accross the South China Sea. 
Nghia-An-Hoi-Quan Pagoda in Cholon (Ho Chi Minh City)
Over the entrance of the pagoda hangs a great wooden boat. Inside are golden wood altars and the statue of Quan Cangs red horse. The temple is a guildhall (Hoi Quan), built in the early 19th century by Chinese from Yian (Nghia An) in China´s Guangdong province. Quan Cong was a chinese general from the Three Kingdom´s Period (184-290).
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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