The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Banja Luka is a Serbian Orthodox cathedral. It replaced the Church of the Holy Trinity, built from 1925 to 1929 and consecrated in 1939. German bombing damaged that church on April 12, 1941. In May 1941, the Ustasha authorities ordered Serbs, Jews and Roma to demolish it. A monument to fallen soldiers later stood on the site.
Patriarch Pavle consecrated the foundations of the new church in 1993. Exterior works were completed on September 26, 2004, when the first liturgy was held, and the Bishop's Temple was consecrated in 2009. The building is architecturally identical to the earlier church.
The bell tower is 154 feet (47 m) high, making it the tallest religious building in Banja Luka. Walls have three layers of stone, concrete and brick, faced in red and yellow travertine, and the domes are covered in golden stainless steel.
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