Zion (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 In politics and religion 2 In geography 3 In fiction 4 In popular culture 5 Other references 6 See also

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