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Mount AraratOne of the mountains of spiritual realm mentioned in the Bible |
The book of Genesis identifies the mountains of Ararat as the resting place of Noah’s ark after the flood.  Mt. Ararat is the highest mountain (known as "Agri" ) in Turkey at 5137 meters. The Mountain has been claimed by many nations including the Medes, Armenians, the Persians, Alexander the Great, Antiochus the Great, the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire. In 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. Noah’s ark rested 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.” “Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.” (Jeremiah 51:27).
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