The 14m high stone structure has the same design as other pagoda temples in the country. It is built on a 9.5m-by-9.5m-high platform. The walls of the tower are beautifully and meticulously carved with images of dragons and lotus flowers.
Before building the tower, the pagoda's monks studied the architecture of many ancient pagodas built in Bac Giang and Bac Ninh provinces in northern Vietnam, some dating to the Ly Dynasty in the 12th century.
The Most Venerable Thich Thanh Phong, the tower's main designer, said young workers from Ninh Van village in the northern province of Ninh Binh were hired to build the tower, which was built with black stones from Thanh Hoa Province.
The workers were the grand-children of stone workers who built the well-known stone church Phat Diem in Ninh Binh Province more than a century ago.
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