Noah’s Mausoleum

The Tomb of Prophet Noah or Noah's Mausoleum is a mausoleum in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Architecture of the construction is dated from the 8th century. As, according to Armenian tradition, Nakhchivan was founded by Noah.

Noah's tomb is located in the town of Nakhchivan. The mausoleum was originally part of a medieval Armenian church structure, monastery, and pilgrimage site dating back to the 12th or 13th-century. 19th century Russian and European sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and John Foster Fraser noted that the local Armenians considered it a holy place, describing it as a "featureless, mud-covered building that the Armenians regard as holy". James Theodore Bent in his 1986 The Contemporary Review described the site as a popular Christian Armenian shrine. The original Armenian structure was destroyed by the Soviets in 1953.