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Mount Ararat ( Turkish Agri; Armenian Արարատ; Farsi آرارات; Hebrew אררט, Standard Hebrew Ararat, Tiberian Hebrew ʾArārāṭ), the tallest peak in modern Turkey, is a snow-capped dormant volcanic coneVolcanic cones are among the simplest volcano formations. They are built by fragments (called ejecta thrown up (ejected) from a volcanic vent, piling up around the vent in the shape of a cone with a central crater. Volcanic cones are of different types, d, located in the far northeast of Turkey, 16 km west of IranIran ( Persian: ) is a Middle Eastern country located in southwestern Asia that until 1935 was referred to in the West as Persia''. It borders Pakistan (909km of border) and Afghanistan (936km) to the east, Turkmenistan (1000km) to the northeast, the Casp and 32 km south of ArmeniaArmenia ( Armenian: ''Hayastan is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in th. The Book of GenesisThis article is about Genesis the first book of the Hebrew Bible. See Genesis (disambiguation) for other usages of the word. Genesis ( Greek: , having the meanings of "birth", "creation", "cause", "beginning", "source" and "origin"; translated from Hebrew identifies this mountain as the resting place of Noah's ArkNoah Edward Hicks (1780 1849), showing animals boarding Noah's Ark, two of every kind. In the Old Testament Book of Genesis chapters 6-9 , Noah's ark was the boat that God commanded Noah to build to keep him, his family and a core breeding stock of the wo after the " great floodDeluge is another word for flood''. For floods in general see flood For Noah's Flood, described in the Book of Genesis see Noah and Noah's Ark. For mythic floods involving Gilgamesh, Noah or others, see deluge (mythology). For prehistoric great floods, so" described there.

A smaller (3896 m) cone, Little Mount Ararat, rises just southeast of the main peak. The lava plateau stretches out between the two pinnacles. Technically, Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta.

Vessel-shaped features interpreted in aerial photographs of Ararat caused a stir in the late 1950s (see pseudoarchaeology), though expeditions found the features to be landslides and lava flows.

Even though currently located in Turkey, Ararat is the national symbol of Armenia, where it is sometimes called Masis (Մասիս), and is featured in the centre of the Coat of Arms of Armenia. The mountain is clearly visible from most locations in Armenia, including the capital city of Yerevan (from Armenia it is best visible from the Khor Virap monastery, though), and is often depicted by Armenian artists on paintings, obsidian engravings and backgammon boards.