Construction started on two new pagodas on Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago in central Khanh Hoa province on April 22 and 23, increasing the number of pagodas on the islands to five.

These significant religious works are constructed by Xuan Truong Construction Company as gifts to Son Ca and Nam Yet islands with a wish to serve the islanders’ religious practice and remind them of great contributions of the ancestors and heroic martyrs who laid down their lives to protect the fatherland’s sea and islands.

Each covering 1,000 square metres, the pagodas will be built within 10 months.

Earlier, Xuan Truong Construction Company had built two pagodas for Song Tu Tay and Truong Sa Lon islands of Truong Sa archipelago.-VNA