In Genesis, what was the first mountain named in connection with Noah’s Ark after the Flood?

In Genesis, Noah’s Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Genesis 8:4 uses the plural phrase “mountains of Ararat,” rather than naming one clearly identified peak.

Ararat was an ancient geographical region, commonly associated with Urartu in the area around eastern Turkey, Armenia, and nearby parts of the Caucasus. The biblical wording therefore does not explicitly say that the ark landed on the summit of the modern Mount Ararat.

Later traditions and searches often identified Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in Turkey, as the ark’s location. That famous peak is a volcanic massif with a summit elevation of 5,137 metres, but the biblical text itself is less specific.

Mount Sinai, Mount Zion, and Mount Carmel are important biblical mountains, yet none is named as the ark’s resting place in Genesis. The precise scriptural answer is the plural regional phrase “mountains of Ararat.”