diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cd716fa9..4727e259 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ For a list of breaking changes, check [here](#breaking-changes).
 A preview of the next release can be installed from
 [babashka-dev-builds](https://github.com/babashka/babashka-dev-builds).
 
+## Unreleased
+
+- [#1204](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1204) add property `babashka.config` to reflect `bb.edn` location ([@mknoszlig](https://github.com/mknoszlig))
+
 ## 0.7.7 (2022-03-04)
 
 ### New
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 3c6e1d2c..42020e46 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -933,6 +933,8 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
         bb-edn-file (or config
                         "bb.edn")
         bb-edn (when (fs/exists? bb-edn-file)
+                 (System/setProperty "babashka.config"
+                                     (.getAbsolutePath (io/file bb-edn-file)))
                  (let [raw-string (slurp bb-edn-file)
                        edn (edn/read-string raw-string)
                        edn (assoc edn
diff --git a/test-resources/babashka/config_property.clj b/test-resources/babashka/config_property.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cf81e7fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-resources/babashka/config_property.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+(ns babashka.config-property
+  (:require [babashka.fs :as fs]))
+
+(def prop (System/getProperty "babashka.config"))
+
+(prn (boolean (seq prop)))
+
+(when prop
+    (prn (fs/exists? (System/getProperty "babashka.config"))))
diff --git a/test/babashka/main_test.clj b/test/babashka/main_test.clj
index 26e56666..976d2644 100644
--- a/test/babashka/main_test.clj
+++ b/test/babashka/main_test.clj
@@ -603,6 +603,13 @@
   (testing "bb executes the empty expression and doesn't start a REPL"
     (is (working? (test-utils/bb nil "-e" "")))))
 
+(deftest config-property-test
+  (is (= "true\ntrue\n"
+         (test-utils/with-config {:tasks {}}
+           (test-utils/bb nil (.getPath (io/file "test-resources" "babashka" "config_property.clj"))))))
+  (is (= "false\n"
+         (test-utils/bb nil (.getPath (io/file "test-resources" "babashka" "config_property.clj"))))))
+
 (deftest file-property-test
   (is (= "true\nfalse\n"
          (test-utils/bb nil (.getPath (io/file "test-resources" "babashka" "file_property1.clj")))))
diff --git a/test/babashka/test_utils.clj b/test/babashka/test_utils.clj
index fb55ca3e..d9c24cd1 100644
--- a/test/babashka/test_utils.clj
+++ b/test/babashka/test_utils.clj
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
   (reset! cp/cp-state nil)
   (reset! main/env {})
   (vreset! common/bb-edn nil)
+  (System/clearProperty "babashka.config")
   (let [args (cond-> args *bb-edn-path*
                      (->> (list* "--config" *bb-edn-path* "--deps-root" ".")))
         os (java.io.StringWriter.)