The Mouansa Synagogue () is a former

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, located in the village of Mouansa, located just west of

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, in

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. The synagogue, together with the nearby Jewish cemetery, is all that remains of the Jewish community of the village after the Jewish exodus from Tunisia that accelerated after attacks in 1967.

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