These Buddhists fled communist Vietnam. Now, in a temple in New Britain, they are celebrating decades in Connecticut.

October 3, 2022

The Vietnamese Buddhists of the Hai An Pagoda in New Britain have much to celebrate

Many of the members are refugees from the country that was ripped apart by war until the south fell to the communist north in 1975. The temple was founded in Bloomfield that year by those who had escaped.

Then as the boat people escaped, peaking in 1978 and 1979, the temple grew, moving to their pagoda on Cherry Street.

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