page_title: Béni Abbès
section_title: Religious buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Béni Abbès / Architecture and urban planning / Religious buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Mosquée du vieux ksar a Béni-Abbés Algerie العربية: مسجد القصر القديم ببني عباس الجزائر
context_page_description: Béni Abbès, also known as the Pearl of the Saoura, and also as the White Oasis, is a town and commune located in western Algeria in Béchar Province, 241 km far from the provincial capital Béchar, and 1,200 km from Algiers.
  It has been the capital of the Béni Abbès District since 1957. The commune's area is approximately 10,040 km², with a population of 10,885 inhabitants as of the 2008 census, up from 8,850 in 1998, and a population growth rate of 2.1%.
  Béni Abbès lies in the Saoura valley, on the left bank of the intermittent wadi called Oued Saoura. There are seven ksars in Béni Abbès, including a particularly large one found in a palm grove in the river valley.
  The people of Béni Abbès are often referred to as Abbabsa.
context_section_description: The harmony of religions has long been the norm in Béni Abbès, and various places of worship are found in the town. There are religious buildings of both Islam and Christianity.
  The oldest religious building is the Old Ksar's mosque, which dates back to the beginning of the seventeenth century (1605), followed the chapel of Father Charles de Foucauld (1901). All other religious buildings are mosques or Koranic schools Founded after the abandonment of Old Ksar in 1957. There are 5 operational mosques, with another 3 under construction.
caption: The old Ksar's Mosque (1605)
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