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Southwest of Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square lies the One Pillar Pagoda, which is rightly deemed the one of the best-known temples of Vietnam, along with the Perfume Temple. The temple rises on a stone pillar whose diameter measures 1.25 meters in Linh Pond, from where it derives its name. Shaped like a blossoming lotus, emblematic of holiness in Buddhism, the temple itself is constructed of wood. At the end of the First Indochina War in 1954, the One Pillar Pagoda was bombed while French troops withdrew, leaving behind only the stone pillar. Built on the original site in 1955, it largely follows the total style of the original temple.