According to the Bible’s Genesis flood narrative, Noah built Noah’s Ark.
Genesis presents Noah as a righteous man chosen by God to survive a catastrophic flood. He is instructed to construct a large vessel from gopher wood, seal it with pitch, and bring aboard his family and representatives of the animal world.
The account does not describe Noah as a professional shipbuilder. Instead, the ark is a divinely commanded project, and its unusual proportions and enormous scale are central features of the story. Noah’s role is also important in later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, although details vary between texts.
A common mix-up is crediting the ark to one of Noah’s sons. Genesis names Shem, Ham, and Japheth as Noah’s sons, but Noah himself is the builder and central human figure in the narrative.