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Phước Sơn Temple

Buddhist temple in Vietnam

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7188372 ↗
Source-derived summary

Phước Sơn Temple (Chùa Phước Sơn, Vietnamese: Chùa Thập Tháp Di-Đà or Thập Tháp Di-Đà Tự) is a historic 19th-century temple in Tân Phước village, Xuân Sơn Bắc commune, Đồng Xuân district, Phú Yên Province in south central Vietnam. It was initially built in 1802.

Editorial summary

“Phước Sơn Temple” enters the record as buddhist temple in Vietnam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Phước, Temple and Buddhist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1802—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Phước, Temple and Buddhist.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Phước Sơn Temple” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Phước, Temple and Buddhist provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7188372. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1802.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Phước Sơn Temple”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Phước Sơn Temple primary sources, Phước Sơn Temple archive and Phước research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Phước Sơn Temple”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Phước Sơn Temple” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.