According to folktales, following the assembly in Takovo, Miloš Obrenović took the insurgents to Ljubić and stopped at the river Dičina in Savinac – at the mineral spring known as “Svetinja” – to wash his face and have some rest. At that very place, he took an oath that he would build a church if he defeated the Turks. And he truly started building his first endowment in 1819, which he dedicated to Saint Sava. Milutin Gođevac, who was one of the best builders of the time, erected it. Dressed pink sandstone was used for its construction. It was consecrated in 1821 (on Pentecost).

The inscription above the south ambon reveals that the building is dedicated to “the memory of princess Ljubica”, and that prince Miloš refurbished this temple in 1860 so that “the soul of his deceased wife, a devout Serbian princess Ljubica may rest in peace”. Nastas Đorđević was the builder who did the repairs and constructed a new bell tower. After 1903, following the initiative of Mileva Alimpić, a new narthex was built together with a crypt. The iconostasis dating back to the time when the temple was built has the Holy door – Janja Moler’s work of art from 1822. As a burial place of the members of both the Obrenović and the Vukomanović families, Saint Sava’s church keeps the remains of Obren Martinović – duke Milan Obrenović’s father – which were relocated in 1818 from the cemetary in Brusnica and buried to the right of the church door. The graves of the five children of master Jovan Obrenović can be found here as well. Beneath the church towards the northeast, princess Ljubica built a red marble gravestone for her brothers Luka, Petar, and Todor. The remains of Mina Vukomanović-Karadžić, her husband Aleksa, and her son Janko were also buried here in 1905.