The church of Zoodochos Pigi (Life-giving Spring) in Samarina is one of the most important monuments in the Peloponnese. It is located in a valley between the villages of Kalogerorachi and Ellinoekklisia (Samari), not far from the town of Androusa. The church is of the domed, two-columned cross-in-square type with three protruding, three-sided apses at the east. It is built with cloisonné masonry (four-sided stones surrounded by bricks), with various ceramoplastic brick decorative motifs, which create an aesthetic and artistic result of a high standard. The church is dated to the late 12th century.

The wall paintings of the main church are fragmentarily preserved; they belong to the academic trend of the late Komnenian painting at the end of the 12th century. The date of the faint wall paintings of the narthex is problematic. The fine sculpts of the templon (screen or iconostasis) date to the second half of the 12th cent. and have been attributed to the famous “Samarina workshop”, which was also active in Laconia and Arcadia. West and north of the church, foundation remains have been preserved belonging to cell wings and a barrel-vaulted byzantine cistern. These are indications of the existence here of a monastery, for which there is no historical evidence.