What is the traditional landing mountain of Noah’s Ark?

Mount Ararat is the traditional mountain associated with Noah’s Ark’s landing.

Genesis says that the Ark came to rest on the “mountains of Ararat,” a phrase referring to a region rather than explicitly naming the modern volcanic peak called Mount Ararat. Over time, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and later European traditions increasingly connected the Ark with the prominent mountain in eastern Turkey.

The biblical wording matters: it uses a plural regional expression, not the exact phrase “Mount Ararat” as a single peak. Ararat was also the name of an ancient kingdom or geographic area associated with Urartu. This creates room for different historical and geographical interpretations.

Mount Ararat has attracted repeated searches and claimed discoveries, but no archaeological evidence has been scientifically verified as Noah’s Ark. The mountain’s fame therefore rests on tradition, interpretation, and its imposing landscape rather than confirmed identification.