The renovated items include: Kinh Thien Pen Tower, Trung Tan Pavilion, yard and wall of the Administration House of the Special National Relic Site of the Temple of Trang Trinh Nguyen Binh Khiem.
The urgent repair project has a total capital of more than 4.7 billion VND, invested by Vinh Bao District People's Committee. Of which, Hai Phong City budget supports 4 billion VND, the remaining funding comes from the district budget. The project is expected to be completed in 2024.
Previously, according to the report of the Department of Culture and Sports of Hai Phong City, Kinh Thien Pen Tower is an item in the protection area 1, the original item of the relic. Pen Tower was built a long time ago on a mound, the height of the tower is 2.5m (from the foot of the tower). The tower consists of a base and 2 roof floors, the tower door faces south, in front of the tower door is an altar. The tower is built of bricks and lime mortar.
By October 2023, Kinh Thien Pen Tower had shown signs of sinking and tilting to the southwest by about 10 degrees, increasing to a tilt angle of about 20 degrees (previously tilted about 10 degrees). Many parts of the plaster were peeling, moss and mold were eroding, and some decorative details were broken due to time. Part of the tiled area in the southeast and northeast had sunk and broken tiles, about 20 square meters.
By early 2024, the Relic Management Board discovered that the tower was leaning more than before, so it reported to the District People's Committee and relevant agencies for timely restoration plans. After that, the city's functional departments surveyed, assessed the current situation and proposed to the Hai Phong City People's Committee to urgently repair the degraded items.
In addition to the Kinh Thien pen tower, there are many other degraded items in this special national relic site, such as Quan Trung Tan, the reliefs in the square and the yard surrounding the relic management house. In particular, Quan Trung Tan is an architectural item built in 2000, on the land built by Trang Trinh Nguyen Binh Khiem when he retired to live in seclusion in the Quang Hoa year, under the Mac Phuc Hai period (1542). Up to now, the structure has moss and mold eroding the roof, some tiles have fallen and broken, and the rafters have been eaten by termites...
