Place of worship
The To Temple
Wooden ancestral shrine to Nguyen emperors, fronted by nine massive bronze urns cast by decree.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to The To Temple, Thế Tổ Miếu, in Huế opens at Cao Đỉnh, the largest of nine bronze urns standing outside the shrine, commissioned by Emperor Minh Mạng in the eighteen thirties. It follows the riverside guild who cast it, and an earlier royal commission of theirs built from a defeated rival dynasty's captured weapons. The thread running through it is who supplied the metal and labor behind Nguyễn imperial power, and what they got to keep for themselves.
This audio guide was created using AI.