diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/evince/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/evince/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..44cdd864787
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/evince/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, perl, perlXMLParser, gettext
+, pkgconfig, glib, gtk, gnomedocutils, gnomeicontheme
+, libgnome, libgnomeui, scrollkeeper, libxslt
+, libglade, dbus, dbus_glib
+, poppler, libspectre, djvulibre, shared_mime_info
+, makeWrapper }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "evince-2.23.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/evince/2.23/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0svdpx9vkh99vbxsfk5ppi6xl0wqvqsrii7m26irinf0bkfyc964";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    perl perlXMLParser gettext
+    pkgconfig glib gtk gnomedocutils gnomeicontheme
+    libgnome libgnomeui libglade scrollkeeper
+    libxslt  # for `xsltproc'
+    dbus dbus_glib
+    poppler libspectre djvulibre
+    makeWrapper
+  ];
+
+  configureFlags = "--with-libgnome --enable-dbus --enable-pixbuf "
+
+    # Do not update Scrollkeeper's database (GNOME's help system).
+    + "--disable-scrollkeeper";
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Tell Glib/GIO about the MIME info directory, which is used
+    # by `g_file_info_get_content_type ()'.
+    wrapProgram "$out/bin/evince" \
+      --set XDG_DATA_DIRS "${shared_mime_info}/share"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/;
+    description = "Evince, GNOME's document viewer";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats.  It
+      currently supports PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI.  The goal
+      of Evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist
+      on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
+    '';
+
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a0777bf612f..9d4059b3776 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5959,6 +5959,14 @@ let pkgs = rec {
     xftSupport = true;
   };
 
+  evince = import ../applications/misc/evince {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl perlXMLParser gettext
+      pkgconfig poppler libspectre djvulibre libxslt
+      dbus dbus_glib shared_mime_info makeWrapper;
+    inherit (gnome) gnomedocutils gnomeicontheme libgnome
+      libgnomeui libglade glib gtk scrollkeeper;
+  };
+
   exrdisplay = import ../applications/graphics/exrdisplay {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig mesa which openexr_ctl;
     fltk = fltk20;