Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas

Abbey of Our Lady of the Atlas

Abbey of Our Lady of the Atlas
Location within Algeria
Monastery information
Order	Trappists
Established	March 7, 1938
Mother house	Aiguebelle Abbey
Diocese	Archdiocese of Alger
Abbot	Dom Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O. (1996)
Site
Country	Algeria
Coordinates	36°17′44″N 2°42′56″E / 36.2956°N 2.7155°E / 36.2956; 2.7155

The Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas (Arabic: دير سيدة الأطلس; French: 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.