Cao Dai Temple Gate - Cai Be, Vietnam - Freestanding Arches on Waymarking.com

The Cao Dai Temple colourful and original rococo style combines the architectures of a Catholic church, a Buddhist pagoda and a Muslim mosque.

Cao Ðài (also Caodaiism) is a syncretistic, monotheistic religion, officially established in the city of Tây Ninh, southern Vietnam in 1926.

Adherents engage in ethical practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the minimum goal of rejoining God the Father in Heaven and the ultimate goal of freedom from the cycle of birth and death. Estimates of Cao Dai adherents in Vietnam vary, but most sources give two to three million, according to other sources up to six million.

Although various sects of Caodaiism claim to have received messages from numerous spiritual entities, the Tây Ninh Holy See acknowledges significantly fewer. Inside the Holy See is a painting depicting the Three Saints signing a covenant between God and humanity. From left to right, they are Sun Yat-sen, Victor Hugo and Nguyen Binh Khiêm. Other saints are Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, William Shakespeare, Joan of Arc and Napoleon Bonaparte. Around 70 holy spirits also exist including Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, Lenin, Victor Hugo, Descartes, Louis Pasteur, Leon Tolstoy and Li Bo, among others.

Type: Gateway Subtype: Other religious arch Location: Cao Dai Temple, Cai Be, Vietnam

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