Zion (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 In politics and religion 2 In geography 3 Other 4 See also

Zion is a hill in Jerusalem just outside the walls of the Old City. Most often Zion is used as a synecdoche for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.

Zion is another word for an idealized, harmonious community; utopia.

Zion may also refer to:

[edit] In politics and religion

• Zionism, the chief ideology supporting a Jewish homeland in Israel
• World Zionist Organization, a group dedicated to the Zionist cause founded at the First Zionist Congress in 1897
• Zionist Churches, a group of Christian denominations in Southern Africa that stem from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion (see below) with an emphasis on spiritual healing.
• Zion Christian Church, a large denomination among African Zionists
• Zion (Mormonism), a place of holiness (sometimes associated with an actual city, a New Jerusalem); also used to refer to Mormon-controlled land in general
• Zionites (Germany), a religious sect from the 18th century based in western Germany
• Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, also known as the Zionites, a fringe church founded in 1896 by John Alexander Dowie in Zion, Illinois that believed in a flat Earth
• Christian Zionists, Christians who believe that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a significant fulfilment of Biblical prophecy
• Zion Bible College, a pentecostal bible college in Barrington, RI

[edit] In geography

See also: Mount Zion

United States

• Zion National Park, a park in southwestern Utah, notable for Zion Canyon sweeping through the reddish desert
• Zion, Illinois, a city just north of Chicago founded by John Alexander Dowie
• Zion, Missouri, a village
• Zion, Oklahoma, a village
• Zion, Pennsylvania, a town
• Zion Township, Minnesota

New Zealand

• Zion Wildlife Gardens, a sanctuary for endangered tiger and lion species

[edit] Other

• Zion (The Matrix), a human-controlled underground city in the Matrix series
• Zion, a space station in the 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer
• Zion I, a hip-hop group
• Zion of Zion y Lennox, a reggaeton duo from Carolina, Puerto Rico
• Zion Nuclear Power Station, a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Zion, Illinois
• "Zion" (David Bowie song), a demo by David Bowie
• "Iron Lion Zion", a song by the reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers

[edit] See also

• Sion (disambiguation)
• Sioni
• Zeon, originally romanized as Zion 1998 in the TV anime Mobile Suit Gundam