diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 825ac7ebe2b..9b2025b5229 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "components/bioformats"]
 	path = components/bioformats
 	url = git://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats.git
+[submodule "docs/sphinx"]
+	path = docs/sphinx
+	url = git@github.com:openmicroscopy/ome-documentation.git
diff --git a/docs/sphinx b/docs/sphinx
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..894266639ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/sphinx
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 894266639ba4370affe297bb29d74566eb245e27