Which mountain does the Genesis Flood story name as the place where Noah’s Ark came to rest?

The Genesis Flood story says Noah’s Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:4 names “the mountains of Ararat” as the place where the ark rested when the waters receded. The wording refers to a region or mountain area rather than explicitly identifying one peak. Ararat was associated with an ancient kingdom and geographical region in the Armenian highlands.

Later tradition commonly connects the story with Mount Ararat, the prominent volcanic peak in present-day eastern Turkey. That mountain is therefore the famous location in art, literature, and popular ark-hunting claims. However, Genesis itself says “mountains” plural and does not specify the modern summit known as Mount Ararat.

This distinction matters because the biblical place name and the later geographic identification are not identical. No archaeological discovery has been accepted as proof that the Ark survived on Mount Ararat or anywhere else. The secure textual answer is the mountains of Ararat.