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The Church of Saint Sava (Serbian: Црква светог Саве) is a Serbian Orthodox church located in the village of Bileća in the Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dedicated to Saint Sava, it was constructed in 1896 in neo-Romano-Gothic style. The Church was proclaimed a National Monument by the commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006.

The church is a simple single-nave structure with a ceiling, adorned with small corner turrets, a bell-cot, oculi under the gables, and a frieze of blind arcades beneath the roof cornice. The close resemblance of corner turrets and cornices between the Sarajevo Evangelical Church (today Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo ) and the Bileća church suggests Karel Pařík may have been involved in creating the plan, for which Bileća priest Perinović thanked the Provincial Government of Austro-Hungarian Bosnia.