Centre-ville, Thich Quang Duc temple

Thich Quang Duc (Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức) temple located at the intersection of Nguyen Dinh Chieu and Cach mang thang 8 street (district 3). He was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection (this place) on 11 June 1963 for protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam