Tradition identifies Mount Ararat as the place where Noah’s Ark came to rest.
Genesis does not name a single peak called Mount Ararat. It says that the Ark came to rest on the “mountains of Ararat,” referring to a region associated with ancient Urartu. Over time, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions increasingly connected the story with the prominent volcanic massif now known as Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
This distinction matters because “Mount Ararat” is a traditional identification, not an explicit wording from the Genesis passage. The mountain is a snow-capped stratovolcano near Turkey’s borders with Iran and Armenia, and it has become the best-known proposed Ark location.
Numerous expeditions and alleged sightings have attracted public attention, but no discovery has been scientifically accepted as Noah’s Ark. Other locations, including areas near Mount Judi, have also appeared in religious and historical traditions. The biblical phrase therefore supports a regional setting more directly than a confirmed modern mountain site.