Turkey is home to Mount Ararat, the volcanic mountain traditionally associated with Noah’s Ark.
Ararat is a snow-capped massif in eastern Turkey, close to the borders with Armenia and Iran. Its highest summit reaches 5,137 metres, making it Turkey’s highest mountain.
The mountain has two main peaks: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the taller summit and is a dormant compound volcano. Its distinctive profile has made it a major symbol in Armenian culture, even though the mountain lies within modern Turkey.
The biblical Book of Genesis refers to the “mountains of Ararat,” not explicitly to the modern peak by name. Claims that remains of Noah’s Ark have been found on Ararat have not been scientifically verified, so the connection is traditional rather than established archaeology.