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History. The city was founded in July 1901 by John Alexander Dowie, a Scots-Australian evangelical minister and faith healer who had migrated to the United States in 1888. By 1890, he had settled in Chicago, where he built a large faith healing business (which included a large mail order component) and had attracted thousands of followers.
When Zion City was incorporated in 1902, 5,000 inhabitants joined the Christian utopia. Named after the mountain upon which Jerusalem was built, Zion City was to be communitarian and theocratic, a place of Christian cooperation, racial harmony, and strict fundamentalist morals.
27 cze 2022 · Zion is a small town south of Kenosha and north of Waukegan in Lake County, Illinois. It is currently home to a nuclear power plant but boasts a rich history in American religious movements and utopian city planning.
13 sty 2010 · The founding of the City of Zion is a remarkable tale of one man's will. The charismatic preacher and faith healer, John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907) founded the Christian Catholic Church and the city of his dreams, Zion.
Zion, Illinois. by William Schwager (article published in 1979) City Motto: “Where God rules, man prospers”. The City of Zion was founded in 1900 by Dr. John Alexander Dowie, a great religious leader. It was to be a city of a Christian ideal and in racial equality and intended to be a self sufficing community.
Zion, city, Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. The area was originally inhabited by Potawatomi Indians. Zion was founded in 1900 by John Alexander Dowie, an evangelist originally from Scotland, as the headquarters of his Christian.
From the original church, which started the real estate development nearly eight decades ago, some 20,000 people now live in Zion. The original motto given by Dowie was, “where God rules, man prospers.”
