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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]
He bought land 40 miles (60 km) north of Chicago to found Zion, where he personally owned all of the land and most businesses. The city was named after Mount Zion in Jerusalem. [3] Dowie also founded the Zion Tabernacle of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, which was the only church in town.
Shembe's Nazarite church was to become the largest Zionist congregation until eclipsed by the Zion Christian Church in the 1950s. Shembe's church was distinct from most other Zionist sects in that he insisted that he was a prophet sent directly from God to the Zulu nation. Most other Zionists were distinctly non-ethnic in outlook. [7]
Mount Zion is a village in Macon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 6,019 at the 2020 census. [3] Geography. Mount Zion is located in southeastern ...
Voliva was born on a farm in Indiana on March 10, 1870. In 1889, he entered Union Christian College, Merom Indiana; he graduated five years later and became a minister. In 1898 he was drawn to the teachings of John Alexander Dowie and eventually joined his congregation, becoming an elder of the Christian Catholic Church of Zion, Illinois. In ...
The Mt. Zion Christian Church in Richmond, Kentucky, was completed in 1852 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] Church attendees included slaveholders and their slaves. [2] It has cannonballs embedded in its south wall, from the American Civil War's Battle of Richmond on August 29 and 30, 1862. The church was used ...
Mount Zion Baptist Church or Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church or variations may refer to: United States (by state) Mount Zion Baptist Church (Anniston, Alabama ...
Mt. Zion Christian Church, Richmond, Kentucky; Mount Zion Church and Cemetery (Hallsville, Missouri), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Boone County; Mount Zion Brick Church, Barada, Nebraska, listed on the NRHP in Richardson County; Mount Zion Church (Big Sandy, Tennessee), once listed on the NRHP in Benton County