Interior of the Cao Dai main temple
It is allowed to enter the Cao Dai main temple and take photos of the interior. It is unusually colourful and full of religious graphics. Each dragon twining the pillar has a red jewel ball on the nose.
In my opinion, what makes the religious architectures in the Mekong Delta so brightly colourful would be the use of blue. It is rare to see this colour in temples in other parts of Vietnam. It might be a French influence as the Mekong Delta and Saigon were directly ruled by the French colonial government as compared with other areas ruled as protectorates.
Interior of the Cao Dai main temple
It is allowed to enter the Cao Dai main temple and take photos of the interior. It is unusually colourful and full of religious graphics. Each dragon twining the pillar has a red jewel ball on the nose.
In my opinion, what makes the religious architectures in the Mekong Delta so brightly colourful would be the use of blue. It is rare to see this colour in temples in other parts of Vietnam. It might be a French influence as the Mekong Delta and Saigon were directly ruled by the French colonial government as compared with other areas ruled as protectorates.