Mama Binete Shrine:

Mama Binete Shrine:
It is a religious-style building that includes the tombstone of the legendary Mama Binat. Its construction dates back to the colonial period in honor of Mama Binat, who lived in the area with a group of nuns after a ship crashed due to a sea storm that dumped them on the beach of Bani Hawa. This incident is known as the story of the Banal in 1802 AD. The novel says that the French warship Banal, which was carrying about 200 sailors, 329 soldiers, and a number of women who the accounts say are Christian nuns of Dutch nationality, were on a journey from the French port of Toulon towards Saint-Domingue, Louisiana, which It was a French colony in 1802, and the ship was equipped by Napoleon Bonaparte with several warships to stop the rebellion there, but the storm changed its course towards the northeastern border region of the state of Chlef, exactly Bani Hawa. Three nuns and three women only, the eldest of whom is Mama Baynat, “Mama Baynat.” She was called Mama Baynat because she is the oldest, meaning the mother of girls. She was over 50 years old, and she was a nurse in the area, and because of the girls’ great respect for her, they used to call her “Mother.” And the healing was on her hand because she improved the treatment, so she earned respect and reverence from the people of the region until they thought that she was a good guardian and after her death.