Bà Đá pagoda or Linh Quang Tự

It was built in 1056 under king Lý Thánh Tôn time, the pagoda was originally called Sùng Khánh and rebuilt later. When digging the foundation, a stone lady statue was discovered and put to be worshipped, it was nowhere to be seen some time. In the 18th century (late Lê -Trịnh dynasty), lord Trịnh Sâm (1767-1782) ordered the pagoda be rebuilt but couldn’t, when the foundation was made deeper, the statue was found and brought to worship, the pagoda was completed and named Bà Đá (stone-lady). In 1793, super-monk Khoan Giai from Sơn Môn Hồng Phúc rebuilt it and called Linh Quang Tự. The pagoda is famous with Buddhist statues made of grape -fruit wood, the biggest one in Việt Nam.