diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.16.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.16.rst
index cff0b8bbe32f0b..39c6db95bae135 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.16.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.16.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ New features
 Other language changes
 ======================
 
+* Stable ABI extensions may now include a multiarch tuple in the
+  filename, e.g. ``foo.abi3-x86-64-linux-gnu.so``.
+  This permits stable ABI extensions for multiple architectures to be
+  co-installed into the same directory, without clashing with each
+  other, as regular dynamic extensions do. Build tools will not generate
+  these multiarch tagged filenames, by default, while still supporting
+  older Python versions that don't recognize these filenames.
+  (Contributed by Stefano Rivera in :gh:`122931`.)
 
 
 New modules
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C_API/2024-08-12-09-48-04.gh-issue-122931.QwHc2l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C_API/2024-08-12-09-48-04.gh-issue-122931.QwHc2l.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..d1caad2e98482d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C_API/2024-08-12-09-48-04.gh-issue-122931.QwHc2l.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Allow importing stable ABI C extensions that include a multiarch tuple
+in their filename, e.g. ``foo.abi3-x86-64-linux-gnu.so``.
diff --git a/Python/dynload_shlib.c b/Python/dynload_shlib.c
index 0ff88ad330fd09..f7f7c922920085 100644
--- a/Python/dynload_shlib.c
+++ b/Python/dynload_shlib.c
@@ -46,8 +46,14 @@ const char *_PyImport_DynLoadFiletab[] = {
     "." ALT_SOABI ".so",
 #endif
 #ifndef Py_GIL_DISABLED
+#ifdef SOABI_PLATFORM
+    ".abi" PYTHON_ABI_STRING "-" SOABI_PLATFORM ".so",
+#endif  /* SOABI_PLATFORM */
     ".abi" PYTHON_ABI_STRING ".so",
 #endif  /* Py_GIL_DISABLED */
+#ifdef SOABI_PLATFORM
+    ".abi" PYTHON_ABI_STRING "t-" SOABI_PLATFORM ".so",
+#endif  /* SOABI_PLATFORM */
     ".abi" PYTHON_ABI_STRING "t.so",
     ".so",
 #endif  /* __CYGWIN__ */
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 63b41117957cab..d93dd09197c818 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -7252,6 +7252,10 @@ case $ac_sys_system in #(
  ;;
 esac
 
+
+printf "%s\n" "#define SOABI_PLATFORM \"${SOABI_PLATFORM}\"" >>confdefs.h
+
+
 if test x$MULTIARCH != x; then
   MULTIARCH_CPPFLAGS="-DMULTIARCH=\\\"$MULTIARCH\\\""
 fi
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6df5d1bee31c67..85f0bf6053d009 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1212,6 +1212,8 @@ AS_CASE([$ac_sys_system],
   [SOABI_PLATFORM=$PLATFORM_TRIPLET]
 )
 
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([SOABI_PLATFORM], ["${SOABI_PLATFORM}"], [Platform tag, used in binary module extension filenames.])
+
 if test x$MULTIARCH != x; then
   MULTIARCH_CPPFLAGS="-DMULTIARCH=\\\"$MULTIARCH\\\""
 fi
diff --git a/pyconfig.h.in b/pyconfig.h.in
index 7ef83fcd0b9e0b..50a2d26b5081c7 100644
--- a/pyconfig.h.in
+++ b/pyconfig.h.in
@@ -1851,6 +1851,9 @@
 /* The size of '_Bool', as computed by sizeof. */
 #undef SIZEOF__BOOL
 
+/* Platform tag, used in binary module extension filenames. */
+#undef SOABI_PLATFORM
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the ANSI C header files. */
 #undef STDC_HEADERS