Click Image to Enlarge This is the second courtyard to the temple of literature. Hanoi's first university established in the eleventh century AD.	Click Image to Enlarge he second courtyard bordered on both sides with a sort of grave stone shrine. Each grave stone is on the back of a giant turtle. The reason for the turtle is a legend relating to a giant turtle/god coming out of near by Huan Kiem lake.	Click Image to Enlarge The temple housed several of these slightly larger than life size statues. Each is of a person who live some time between the temples founding and the sixteenth century AD. Each had incense burning in front. Although there were a lot of turists, there were also some that had come to pray to the statues.
Click Image to Enlarge This is an sort of secondary shrine in the third courtyard along with the two grave stone shrines. It had a couple porcelan statues and some stone tablets... didn't want to disturb the prayers.	Click Image to Enlarge This is the temple of literature. It is comprised of two buildings. The first is actually more of an open area, the larger building (two-story) in back is the main temple shrine.	Click Image to Enlarge A view of the city taken from the second floor of the temple of literature. Nice view. I also enjoy the architecture.

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This is the second courtyard to the temple of literature. Hanoi's first university established in the eleventh century AD.

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he second courtyard bordered on both sides with a sort of grave stone shrine. Each grave stone is on the back of a giant turtle. The reason for the turtle is a legend relating to a giant turtle/god coming out of near by Huan Kiem lake.

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The temple housed several of these slightly larger than life size statues. Each is of a person who live some time between the temples founding and the sixteenth century AD. Each had incense burning in front. Although there were a lot of turists, there were also some that had come to pray to the statues.

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This is an sort of secondary shrine in the third courtyard along with the two grave stone shrines. It had a couple porcelan statues and some stone tablets... didn't want to disturb the prayers.

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This is the temple of literature. It is comprised of two buildings. The first is actually more of an open area, the larger building (two-story) in back is the main temple shrine.

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A view of the city taken from the second floor of the temple of literature. Nice view. I also enjoy the architecture.