Chua Mot Cot, or the One-pillar Pagoda, was built in 1049 by King Ly Thai Tong in the shape of a lotus, inspired by a dream of of the King in which the Goddess of Mercy appreared to him, sitting on a lotus. The pagoda now is a replica of the original one, which was destroyed by the French army as they were leaving Hanoi in 1954.
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