A giant reproduction of Noah's Ark in the USA, in Grant County, Kentucky. I kid you not. You can check out the visitors on Tripadvisor.
It is not the only one. There's another constructed in the Netherlands which the constructor hopes to sail to Israel. Meanwhile, however, the one in the USA is in the country with the whole history of Disney and theme parks.
What else is there to see in Kentucky, famous for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC.
As for the original of Noah's Ark, a mountain called Mount Ararat, in Turkey-Armenia, has a flat top, a bit like the mountain which dominates Cape Town in South Africa. The mountain features in the coat of arms of Armenia.
To sum up the travel sites:
1 USA Reproduction of Noah's Ark in Grant County, Kentucky. The place with most to see.
Museum
2 ARMENIA Mount Ararat, Armenia. See the mountain, try food associated with the name Noah.
See coat of arms featuring the mountain.
3 Toy shops worldwide sell Noah's ark.
4 Check out the story in the bible, Genesis 6-9. See old bibles in museums. At home make Noah's pudding.
Full-scale[edit]
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The Bible gives the length of the ark as 300 cubits. Various cubits were in use in antiquity,[2] but to be considered "full-scale", an Ark replica would have to be somewhere in the range from about 135 to upward of 150 meters long (ca. 440 to 500+ feet).
- Johan's Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands.[3] 137 meters (450 ft) long and carried on a platform made up of 25 LASH barges, this is the only full-scale Ark interpretation that is actually floating and mobile.[4]
- Noah's Ark theme park at Ma Wan Island, Hong Kong. This interpretation is also 137 meters (450 ft) long.[5]
- Ark Encounter theme park located on a hill in Grant County, Kentucky, United States. It is 155 meters (510 ft) long.[6]
Reduced-scale[edit]
- Johan's Ark — Johan Huibers also built a reduced-size ark.[7]
- 2/3-scale model in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada.[5][8]
- Greenpeace built a 10x4x4 meter replica ark on Mount Ararat in 2007 to warn about "impending climate disaster".[5][8][9] It was later relocated to the town of Iğdır.
- Cement-and-iron replica, 60 meters by 4.5 meters (200 ft x 15 ft), in park operated by Freud de Melo in Hidrolândia, Goiás, Brazil.[8][10][11]
- Reduced-scale model in the Creation Evidence Museum, near Glen Rose, Texas.[12]
Partial[edit]
- Replicas of portions of the ark at the Creation Museum (Petersburg, Kentucky) and in a warehouse nearby.[13]
- Partial replica built for filming the movie Noah (Oyster Bay, Long Island)[14]
- God's Ark of Safety, partially built. On a hilltop along Interstate 68 in Frostburg, Maryland.
Christmas Toys
Amazon
If you want to buy a child a toy Noah's Ark for Christmas, Amazon has several sources and will connect you with all the big suppliers.
Etsy
Also check out Etsy, favoured by artists and small businesses creating funky individual stuff.
Ebay
Ebay has new and used items.
For a couple of US dollars you can buy a miniature Old Testament on a key ring from China, free shipping worldwide. See the story of Noah's Ark in Genesis.
Noah's Pudding in Armenia At Xmas and New Year
When Noah landed he made a pudding of 7 or 10 ingredients, a porridge with fruits and nuts, which you might eat on the tenth day of a certain month. The dish in English is called Noah's Pudding and in Arabic, Persian and other languages it is called Ashure meaning tenth.
Wiki says:
The Armenian version is called anuşabur. Armenians serve it during Christmas and on New Year's Eve. Like ashure it may be garnished with pomegranate seeds and flavored with rose water, and the pudding is shared with neighbors during the Christmas season. The festive pudding is the centerpiece of the New Year's table, which is often decorated with dried fruits, nuts and pomegranates.[12]
Also very popular in the Muslim calendar and in Muslim countries.
Argentina's Holy Land Theme Park
Tierra Santa is a large reproduction where visitors can walk the streets of Biblical Jerusalem, living step by step scenes from the life of Jesus as described in the Bible. Cultures represented include Christians, Jews, and Romans. A 18 metres (59 ft) Jesus rises from behind a rock every hour, on the hour,[2] a solemn religious experience for many visitors, but also provoking derision on the Internet as kitschy.[3] The park also includes statues of several 20th century historical figures such as Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa, according to park staff were included because they were historic figures who "fought for peace" and that the park also wanted to also pay tribute to them.[3]
WEBSITES
ARMENIA
Noah's Ark Searching Armenia
More information on the history of searches for Noah's Ark: (One of those websites where you keep going to the next page filled with ads, but quite detailed.)
https://www.ninjajournalist.com/science/noahs-ark/?utm_campaign=Noahs%20Ark
ARMENIA
Noah's Pudding In Armenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashure
ARGENTINA
Also see the Wiki account of the theme park in Buenos Aires, Argentina:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_Santa_(theme_park)
Noah's Pudding
Try Noah's pudding or nut pudding in Istanbul, Turkey:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g293974-d740265-i146114981-Pudding_Shop-Istanbul.html
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