diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.h
index 84aecbd4373e0..80ae4d679624c 100644
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.h
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ class ModuleImport {
   /// specification.
   LogicalResult convertDataLayout();
 
+  /// Converts target triple of the LLVM module to an MLIR target triple
+  /// specification.
+  void convertTargetTriple();
+
   /// Stores the mapping between an LLVM value and its MLIR counterpart.
   void mapValue(llvm::Value *llvm, Value mlir) { mapValue(llvm) = mlir; }
 
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.cpp b/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.cpp
index e23ffdedd9a60..5ebde22cccbdf 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleImport.cpp
@@ -662,6 +662,11 @@ LogicalResult ModuleImport::convertDataLayout() {
   return success();
 }
 
+void ModuleImport::convertTargetTriple() {
+  mlirModule->setAttr(LLVM::LLVMDialect::getTargetTripleAttrName(),
+                      builder.getStringAttr(llvmModule->getTargetTriple()));
+}
+
 LogicalResult ModuleImport::convertFunctions() {
   for (llvm::Function &func : llvmModule->functions())
     if (failed(processFunction(&func)))
@@ -2451,6 +2456,6 @@ mlir::translateLLVMIRToModule(std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module> llvmModule,
     return {};
   if (failed(moduleImport.convertFunctions()))
     return {};
-
+  moduleImport.convertTargetTriple();
   return module;
 }
diff --git a/mlir/test/Target/LLVMIR/Import/target-triple.ll b/mlir/test/Target/LLVMIR/Import/target-triple.ll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a04b41a7aeb55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/test/Target/LLVMIR/Import/target-triple.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+; RUN: mlir-translate -import-llvm %s | FileCheck %s
+; CHECK: module attributes {
+; CHECK-SAME: llvm.target_triple = "aarch64-none-linux-android21"
+target triple = "aarch64-none-linux-android21"
+