One Pillar Pagoda (Chua Mot Kot) was built by Emperor Li Thai Tong, who ruled in the XI century. According to legend, the emperor who had no heirs dreamed that he met with the Goddess of Mercy, which is sitting on a lotus flower, handed him a baby boy. Soon the emperor married and had a son. In gratitude, the Emperor and built this pagoda in 1049 the One Pillar Pagoda.

One Pillar Pagoda, built of wood on a single stone pillar with a diameter 1, 25 m, rising out of the lake, was to symbolize their views lotus flower - a symbol of purity, rising out of the sea of ​​sadness. In 1954 the French destroyed the pagoda during the evacuation of the proud. But it rebuilt under the new government.