Church of the Parigoritissa

The Church of the Parigoritissa is the 13th-century Byzantine metropolitan church of the Greek town of Arta. Part of the building used to house the Archaeological Collection of Arta. The church changed into based in ca. 1290 by way of the Despot of Epirus, Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas r. 1268–1297, and his 2^nd wife Anna Kantakouzene. The church eventually became bankrupt, and changed into was a dependency metochion of the Monastery of Kato Panagia. In 1578, it is attested as a lady convent.

The church is a massive, nearly rectangular 3-storey building. It is of the octagonal type, with the relevant dome supported by way of 8 piers divided into 3 degrees. There are also 4 smaller domes on each nook of the church's flat roof, and a lantern. Its indoors ornament is rich, with marble revetment as much as the extent of the galleries, and giant surviving mosaics and frescoes above that.

On the dome the mosaic of the Pantokrator, surrounded by using angels, and 12 prophets among the drum's home windows. These mosaics have been probable finished via artists from outside Epirus 16th-century frescoes through the painter Ananias survive inside the altar, while seventeenth-century frescoes beautify the main church. The church's decoration also shows a number of Western influences in its statuary, which include Romanesque monsters and reliefs depicting Biblical scenes/Ambracia.