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The Municipal Theatre of Ho Chi Minh City ( Vietnamese: Nhà hát Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, French: Théâtre municipal de Saïgon ), also known as Saigon Opera House, is an opera house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is an example of French Colonial architecture in Vietnam. Designed by French architects as the Opéra de Saïgon, the ...
Saigon Times Square. Times Square is a high-rise building in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This tower is a 40-storey joint tower and features a modern architectural style. Construction costs, invested by Times Square (Vietnam) Investment Joint Stock Company, totals approximately US$125 million. The height to the top of the tower is 164 ...
Dragon House ( Vietnamese: Bến Nhà Rồng) or Ho Chi Minh Museum is the original commercial port of Saigon. It is located on the Saigon River. Construction began in 1862 and more than a year later, in 1863, the house was completed. It is located at the junction of the Saigon River in District 4. On 5 June 1911, Ho Chi Minh (at the time named ...
Bitexco Financial Tower. / 10.77167°N 106.70444°E / 10.77167; 106.70444. Bitexco Financial Tower ( Vietnamese: Tháp Tài chính Bitexco) is a skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At its completion in 2010, it became the tallest building in Vietnam and kept this status until January 2011, when it was surpassed by Keangnam Hanoi ...
Tân Định church ( Vietnamese: nhà thờ Tân Định) is a Roman Catholic church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Its formal name is the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ( nhà thờ Thánh Tâm Chúa Giêsu, French: Église du Sacré-Cœur de Tan Dinh ). Even though it is in District 3, the parish shares its name with neighbouring ...
From that point, the church was called Notre-Dame Cathedral . In 1960, Pope John XXIII erected Roman Catholic dioceses in Vietnam and assigned archbishops to Hanoi, Huế and Saigon. The cathedral was titled Saigon Chief Cathedral. In 1962, Pope John XXIII anointed the Saigon Chief Cathedral, and conferred it the status of a basilica.
Ho Chi Minh Prize. Order of Ho Chi Minh. Spouse (s) Nguyễn Thị Khánh. Trần Đại Nghĩa (13 September 1913 – 9 August 1997) was a Vietnamese scientist, military engineer, and prominent figure in the defense industry of Vietnam. [1] He was a major-general and an academician. He was awarded the Order of Ho Chi Minh and named a Hero of ...
The Opera House was shortly afterwards scene one of the first conflicts of the First Indochina War. On 20 November 1946, during the first days of the French attack on Hai Phong, 39 Viet Minh soldiers and Opera staff with antique muskets led by platoon commander Đặng Kim Nở fought French troops from the Opera House for three days and nights ...