Place
Mountains of Ararat
"The mountains of Ararat" where the Ark rested (Gen 8:4). Ararat is the biblical name for the region known as Urartu; Scripture names the range, not a specific peak.
Location
- Type
- region
- Coordinates
- 39.7028, 44.3004
- Certainty
- very-high
OpenBible.info: identification of the region Ararat with Urartu at "very high confidence". The exact Ark landing site within the region is unknown.
OpenBible.info GeoJSON point m08a591 (modern identification "Urartu"); region-level, not a landing site.
- OpenBible.info entry (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0, OpenBible.info)
- OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata Q185068 (opens in a new tab)
Scripture
Disagreements & open questions
- Open question The OpenBible Wikidata link Q185068 should be checked - confirm it refers to the Ararat/Urartu region and not Mount Ararat specifically.
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Free sources
- OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain
Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.