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Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas

Tibhirine, Algeria

The Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas (Abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Atlas) is a Catholic monastery of Trappists, inaugurated on March 7, 1938, in Tibhirine, close to Médéa, in Algeria. The abbey became more known in 1996, when seven monks were kidnapped from the monastery, during the Algerian Civil War, and were killed. The film Of Gods and Men, released in 2010, tells the events that led to their deaths.

Monastery data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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