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:
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
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
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