The Church of the Holy Venerable Mother Parascheva (Serbo-Croatian: Hram svete prepodobne majke Paraskeve, Serbian Cyrillic: Храм свете пеподобне мајке Параскеве) is a Serbian Orthodox church located in Banovci, Vukovar-Syrmia County, in eastern Croatia.

The Church of the Holy Venerable Mother Parascheva falls under the jurisdiction of the Eparchy of Srem, headquartered in Sremski Karlovci in neighbouring Serbia.

[4] First Danube Swabians settled in Banovci in 1859 where they were relying on the support of local Serbian Orthodox priest Uroš.

[5] As there was no Lutheran church in Banovci at that time, German Protestant settlers asked priest Uroš to hold a Christmas Mass for them under the Eastern Orthodox liturgical rite.

[5] Priest Uroš have refused this request as it was contrary to Orthodox canonical rules, yet he offered them to organize Christmas Celebration on their own in the St. Petka church.

[3] During World War II Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia local Orthodox community like many areas experienced religious persecution and attempts at forced conversion to Roman Catholicism.

[4] The restoration received support from the local administration in Nijemci Municipality, which funded moisture protection in the church.