Zion (disambiguation)
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Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, Tziyyon) is a mountain near Jerusalem. Most often Zion is used as a synecdoche for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.
Zion can 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
- 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
[edit] 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
- Zionsville, Indiana. a small city in Indiana
- Zion (Taiwan), a mountain in Sanming County, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
[edit] In fiction
- Zion, a space station in Neuromancer (1984), a William Gibson cyberpunk novel
- Zion (The Matrix), a human-controlled underground city in The Matrix series
- An alternative spelling of Zeon.
[edit] In popular culture
- Zion I, a hip-hop group
- Tool songwriter Maynard James Keenan mentions Zion in "Wings For Marie".
[edit] 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 Post-rock band
- One part of the now defunct reggaeton duo Zion y Lennox.
[edit] See also
- Sion (disambiguation)
- Mount Zion, for a list of places (other than the Biblical one) known by that name
