Place of worship
Đền Hai Bà Trưng
12 Hương Viên, Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
Riverside shrine to two rebel queens, its altar depicting their violent capture rather than the legendary drowning.
This guide to Đền Hai Bà Trưng in Hanoi tells of sisters Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị, who raised an army from the Red River Delta in the year forty after a Chinese governor executed Trưng Trắc's husband, and briefly ruled an independent Vietnam. You'll hear how the Han empire sent General Mã Viện south with twenty thousand men to crush the rebellion, and how Vietnamese memory diverged from Chinese records about the sisters' end. The guide also traces the temple back to a king's drought-breaking dream in 1158.
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