Zion (disambiguation)
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 Biblical land of Israel.
Zion is another word for an idealized, harmonious community; utopia.
Zion may also refer to:
In politics and religion
- Zionism, various ideologies supporting a Jewish home in Biblical Israel, and now, the State of Israel
- World Zionist Organization, the group founded at the First Zionist Congress in 1897 and dedicated to implementing Zionist ideology
- 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 (Latter Day Saints), In LDS theology, Zion can can refer to The Lord's people ("the pure in heart"), a specific place (Jerusalem, New Jerusalem, etc.), or both.
- 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 Zionism, belief among some Christians 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
- Zion College, a former Bible institute in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Zion, Rastafarian goal of heaven upon earth; also used to refer to either Ethiopia or Africa, e.g. "the land of Zion"
In geography
- Jerusalem
- United States of America
- 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, Maryland, a village
- Zion, Missouri, a village
- Zion, Oklahoma, a village
- Zion, Pennsylvania, a town
- Zion, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Zion Township, Stearns County, Minnesota
- New Zealand
People
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 & 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
- "Road to Zion", a song by Damian Marley
- "To Zion", a song by Lauryn Hill
See also