diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..76fba6e1b3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml";
+  version = "1.1.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "c0efb33f8052c04fd7a26c0a07f1678e8512e0faec19f4aa8f2473a8b81d5227";
+  };
+
+
+  # Check is disabled due to circular dependency of sphinx
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml is a sphinx extension which outputs \"serialized\" HTML files (json and pickle).";
+    homepage = http://sphinx-doc.org/;
+    license = licenses.bsd0;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 027eb97b6d0..b8896945eaf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5021,6 +5021,8 @@ in {
 
   sphinxcontrib-qthelp = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-qthelp {};
 
+  sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml {};
+
   sphinxcontrib-bibtex = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-bibtex {};
 
   sphinx-navtree = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sphinx-navtree {};