Cao Dai - High Tower, Taoist for Supreme God

Combining the three main religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism including also Christianity, Islam and the traditional Vietnamese cult of Ancestor Worship,  the faiths of all Vietnamese  thus coming under one  supreme being

The cathedral and Holy See at Long Than was built in 1927.  At the height of its power in the early 1930's there numbered one and a half million faithful

The Lonely Planet describes it as  a "rococo extravaganza combining the architectural idiosyncrasies of a French church, a Chinese pagoda, Tiger Balm Gardens and Madame Tussaud's"

Devotions are held four times a day.   We attended the noon time ceremony where visitors are welcome but not allowed on the floor of the temple during the service.   On entry shoes were removed.  Men enter and worship on the right and women on the left.  At noon we were directed to a balcony from where we were permitted to take photographs

The robes of the priests who are all volunteers indicate the branch of religion they represent Yellow for Buddhism,  Red for Confucianism Azure for Taoism.  We were advised that they would be unwilling to be photographed but this was not the case 

The target's 'bulls eyes' were obvious depictions of GI's.   I could understand the former N. Vietnamese providing them, what I couldn't understand was Western visitors happily lining up to shoot at them.  The GI targets were replaced long ago with something a little more politically correct and there is now talk of closing the firing range all together.   I think it's about time