Standing next to a pond outside the Mikhail Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute is  the St Tryphon's Church at Naprudnoe; Naprudnoe being the name of the royal village which once stood here before it was incorporated into Russia. The church is very simple consisting of just a small pillar-less cubic structure with a single dome and a single apse, but it happens to be one of the oldest churches in the whole of Moscow.  Although there is some debate about the exact date, it is believed the church was built in the late 15th century around 1475 to 1485. 

One legend surrounding the foundation of the church speaks of a falconer who lost one of the grand duke's falcons and prayed to St Tryphon to help him find it as St Tryphon is associated with the falcon.  When the falconer found the falcon and was therefore spared the wrath of the grand duke, he credited St Tryphon and commissioned the building of this church at the very site where he found the falcon.  The church was closed between 1930 and 1992, although it was kept in a good condition during this period.  The easiest way to get here is to take tram No. 5 from Rizhskaya metro station.

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