Rača monastery, Serbian Orthodox monastery in Bajina Bašta Municipality, Serbia.

Rača is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on the right bank of the Rača river, below Mount Tara. Its rough grey-brown stone church has a central dome on a tall octagonal drum with narrow arched windows, rounded arched windows, and a lower chapel projecting at the front left under a dark metal roof. A separate square stone bell tower, built in 1849, stands a few metres to the north.

Founded by Stefan Dragutin (1276–1282), Rača was burned after the Ottoman conquest of 1459, after the Great Migration of 1690 and after the collapse of the First Serbian Uprising in 1813, when two monks were killed. Hadži Melentije Stevanović obtained a sultan's firman and rebuilt the church from 22 August 1795 to 22 July 1796; a second reconstruction followed from 1816 to 1835.

The Rača School flourished from the 16th to the 18th century, producing scribes such as Kiprijan, Jerotej, Čirjak, Simeon, Teodor and Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović. The Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi recorded in 1630 that 300 monk-scribes worked here, served by 400 shepherds and craftsmen and guarded by 200 armed men.

The monastery lies about 6 km from Bajina Bašta, on the right bank of the Rača near its confluence with the Drina, at the foot of Tara. The grounds are entered on foot along a paved path leading to the church and the separate bell tower. The church is roughly 23 m long and 11 m high, so allow time to walk around it and the surrounding buildings.

Evliya Çelebi, the Ottoman travel writer, recorded in his 1630 travelogue that Rača housed 300 monk-scribes, attended by 400 shepherds, blacksmiths and other staff, with a guard of 200 armed men. The monastery's scriptorium, the Rača School, flourished from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, producing copies of liturgical, scientific and literary works.