Just outside the castle area of Servia, lies the elegant middle byzantine period church of Agii Anargiri. It is built outside the northwestern part of the lower castle city walls, near the northern gate. It is a single transept church, with a rectangular arch that has a ceramoplastic decoration, which according to the relevant inscription and its style dates back to 1510.
The murals are separated into three zones: the two long sides and the church’s eastern wall. At the sanctuary’s alcove we see a representation of Virgin Mary between Archangels and on both sides, the images of Archangel Michael and the Annunciation. At the skirt, we see the Hierarchs and at the pediment the interesting representation of the Ascension, where the Virgin Mary holds in her two arms the Holy Face Scapular. A part, where we find the images of the Hierarchs is saved at the alcove, from the first phase of the church’s muraling that dates back to the 11th-12th century. At the upper zone of the nave we see images of Prophets, in the middle scenes from the Twelve Feasts and in the lower whole body Saints’ icons and the Deesis on the northern wall.
On the western wall, the illustrations are separated into two zones. At the upper and wider zone, we find the Dormition and the Metamorphosis, while in the lower, whole body Saint’s images and Archangel Michael, near the southern entrance gate. The murals can be attributed to two painters, one of which painted the bigger part of the decorations and belongs to the circle of the Kastorian workshop. This famous workshop operated in the area of Meteora, in central-western Macedonia and the northern Balkan Peninsula, from 1483 until 1510. The art of the other painter that almost surely painted the scenes on the northern wall is characterized by anticlassical trends that were prevalent during that period in central-western Macedonia.
From 1966 to 2000 and after relevant approved studies, the fixing- restoration of the church took place, as well as the maintenance of its decorations.
