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Eventually, he and about two-thirds of the Wakkerstroom congregation pooled their resources and obtained freehold property in Charlestown, Natal, where they built the first South African "Zion". Many dozens of offshoots from Nkonyane's church formed small Zionist churches, especially in Swaziland (today Eswatini) and Natal. [5]
Religious Zionists celebrating Jerusalem Day in Israel. Religious Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת דָּתִית, romanized: Tziyonut Datit) is a religious denomination that views Zionism as a fundamental component of Orthodox Judaism.
Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn; [a] Biblical Greek: Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [3] [4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole. The name is found in 2 Samuel , one of the books of the Tanakh dated to approximately the mid-6th century BCE.
The term "Zion" was first associated with a mass movement as the Hovevei Zion (Hebrew: חובבי ציון, lit 'Lovers of Zion') also known as the Hibbat Zion (חיבת ציון, lit. 'Love of Zion'), that came together at the 1884 Katowice Conference , inspired by the Leon Pinsker 's pamphlet Auto-Emancipation .
The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) is one of the largest African-initiated churches operating across Southern Africa, and is part of the African Zionism movement. [1] The church's headquarters are at Zion City Moria in Limpopo Province (old Northern Transvaal), South Africa.
African Zionism (also "amaZioni" from Zulu "people of Zion") is a religious movement with 15–18 million members throughout Southern Africa, making it the largest religious movement in the region. It is a combination of Christianity and African traditional religion .
The Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church is a religious group that first emerged in Jamaica during the 1940s [1] and later spread to the United States, being incorporated in Florida in 1975. [2] Its beliefs are based on both the Old and New testaments of the bible, as well as the teachings of Marcus Garvey , self-reliance, Afrocentricity and Ethiopianism .
Christ Community Church in Zion, Illinois, formerly the Christian Catholic Church or Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, is an evangelical non-denominational church founded in 1896 by John Alexander Dowie. The city of Zion was founded by Dowie as a religious community to establish a society on the principles of the Kingdom of God. [1]