Hoi An (Chữ Nôm: 會安), formerly known as Fai-Fo or Faifoo, is a city in Vietnam's Quang Nam Province and is noted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. There were many Chinese immigrants in Hoi An, Choumeizai will talk about the two biggest ones.
Cantonese Assembly Hall (Chinese: 廣肇會館) was built by merchants from Guangdong Province of China in 1786.
Cantonese Assembly Hall was a place for the seafaring merchants to rest, meet and worship.
The main deity worshipped in Cantonese Assembly Hall is Guan Gong (關公; ？- 219), a historical Chinese general of Shu (蜀) in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義), there are some intricately carved bas-reliefs about his story.
Fujian Assembly Hall (福建會館) was built in the late 17th century as a place for merchants from Fujian Province to rest, meet and worship.
Fujianese enshrined Thien Hau (天后) here, as she’s the goddess of the sea, they came here to pray before embarking on long trading journeys.
Fujianese have been one of the most prominent merchant communities in Vietnam, many of them sailed south after the fall of Ming (明) Dynasty (1368 - 1644).
