The Cho Gao Temple was built in 1972. In 1991, the government took over and eventually transferred to the 1997 Cao Dai Sect.
Library
Cao Dai Temple 891, Tran Hung Dao, Saigon
In 1949, His Holiness Pham Cong Tac bought a villa from the French in 1949 as a place to worship the Supreme Being and Buddha Mother and where dignitaries came to practice religion.
The Creation of the 1997 Cao Dai Sect
Facing mounting international criticisms, in the early 1990โs the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) adopted a new strategy: to force Cao Dai Religion adherents to join a new religion that they would create and control. The Secretariat of the VPCโs Central Committee on...
The Cao Dai Religion vs. its Impostor
The Impersonator: The government-created "1997 Sect" Cao Daiism is an endogenous syncretic religion founded in 1926 in Vietnam. Estimated number of Cao Dai followers varies between 2.5 and 5 million. In 1983, the government practically abolished the Cao Dai Church and...