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Zion (disambiguation)


Zion can refer to several things.

In religion

* Zion, a mountain near Jerusalem, a synecdoche representing the Promised Land
* Zion (Taiwan), a mountain in Sanming County, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
* Zionism, the chief ideology supporting a Jewish homeland in Israel
** World Zionist Organization, a group dedicated to the Zionist cause founded from the First Zionist Congress in 1897
* Zionism (southern African religion), a movement in African Christianity with a syncretic mixing of Christian and traditional African religious beliefs
** 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.
* Zionist Christians, Christians who belong to one of the numerous Zionist Churches, found mainly in southern Africa

In geography

* Mount Zion, the modern name of a hill south of the Jerusalem Old City's Armenian Quarter — the result of a misnomer dating from the Middle Ages when pilgrims mistook the relatively large, flat summit for the original site of the City of David
* Zion National Park, a park in southwestern Utah, notable for Zion Canyon sweeping through the reddish desert
* Zion, Illinois, a city in Illinois just north of Chicago founded by John Alexander Dowie
* Zion, Pennsylvania, a town in central Pennsylvania
* Zion Township, Minnesota, a small township in central Minnesota
* Zion, Missouri, a village in Missouri
* Zion, Oklahoma, a village in eastern Oklahoma
* Mount Zion, Auckland Region, New Zealand, 262m, near Karekare

In fiction

* Zion (The Matrix), a human-controlled underground city in The Matrix film trilogy
* Zion, a space station in Neuromancer, a William Gibson cyberpunk novel

Other references

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic tract wherein a (fictional, though the text claims otherwise) Jewish conspiracy details their evil plans for world domination
* Priory of Sion, a society created in 1956 by Pierre Plantard, and later given a fictional prehistory wherein it was founded during the Crusades
* Zion Nuclear Power Station, a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Zion, Illinois
* A Silver Mt. Zion, a Canadian indie rock band
* One part of the now defunct reggaeton duo Zion y Lennox.

See also

*Sion (disambiguation)
*Mount Zion, for a list of places (other than the Biblical one) known by that name



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