Mount Ararat
The book of Genesis identifies the mountains of Ararat as the resting place of Noah’s ark after the flood. A mountainous region of eastern Armenia, between the river Araxes and the lakes Van and Oroomiah, the site where Noah’s ark came to rest (Strong. 2001, #0780).
Mount Ararat is the highest mountain (known as “Agri” in Turkey) at 5137 meters. Mount Ararat consists of two volcanic peaks in extreme eastern Turkey, near the border with Armenia and Iran, on which the ark rested after the Flood subsided. (Freeman. 1998).
Originally Mount Ararat was called Urartu, Ararat referred to the whole mountainous area; its use, however has gradually come to be restricted to the huge volcanic mountain at the borders of Turkey, Iran, and the Soviet Union. 1829 it was under Russian rule, and in 1923 Mount Ararat was divided up between Turkey and the USSR. Armenians still claim the mountain, and they have the image of Mount Ararat on their coat of arms. Even after Armenia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia still claimed ownership over Mount Ararat because it is considered their spiritual home. (Youngblood. 1995).
Noah’s ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month upon Mount Ararat. “And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.” (Genesis 8:1-3).
“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.” (Genesis 8:4-5).
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