This is the port side of the replica ark. My son standing beside it. It is 300 cubits long. (512 feet) this Ark replica is currently the world's largest freestanding wooden object. We estimate that it took Noah and his family members about 75 years to build. Some think it may be as much as 120 years. It took a huge crew of construction workers and Diesel machinery and modern tools with several expert Mennonite Barn builders from shipshewana area Indiana 2 years to build this replica.
Follow the animal ramp up to the top of the ship and you will see what looks to be like a small door. That door is actually big enough to fit an elephant through. It is the door that God closed according to the Bible. You also see another picture in my Ark encounter album of me and my son standing beside the inside of that door. The magnitude in size of this is mind-boggling. I tried to use examples to give you an idea how big this exhibit really is. And with all the information from the Bible that we have to work with.... They made everything as accurate as they possibly could but we must understand that there is a lot of detail about the arc that is not there. The rest of the replica was designed based on many Bible scholars and archaeologists and many people over the last 100 years to really study about the ark and how things would have been built in those times but where there is some information about the Ark in the Bible they made it to be exact. The one thing that is so incredible is that it is the actual size because the Bible did mention that.