Shin Takamatsu Architect & Associates

Ba Den Mountain

Ba Den Mountain

Ba Den Mountain, a sacred site located 90 kilometers west of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has long been a place of spiritual devotion. This project involves the construction of a large-scale Buddhist complex on the sacred mountain.
Ba Den Mountain has an elevation of 969 meters. At its summit, a statue of Kannon (the bodhisattva of mercy), more than 70 meters tall, is enshrined. To symbolize the project’s core concept of reincarnation, a strictly ordered axis approximately 1 kilometer in length extends from the Kannon, along which facilities such as a worship hall, lecture hall, art museum, and media hall are arranged.
Confronted with architecture, people stand still, bring their hands together, pray, and cry.

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