The utterance is establish in texts dating rear approximately three millennia. It originally referred to a specific mountain near Jerusalem (Mount Zion), on which stood a Jebusite fortress of the similar name that was conquered by David and was named the City of David. Zion came to designate the region of Jerusalem anywhere the fortress stood, and afterward became a metonym for Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the metropolis of Jerusalem and the entire Promised Ground to approach, in which, according to the Hebrew Bible, God dwells among his selected people. Zion appears 154 era in the Tanakh (Hebrew Aged Testament). Praise God O Jerusalem, praise your God O Zion.

After a number of advances and setbacks, and following the Holocaust had destroyed Jewish society in Europe, the Zionist group culminated in the establishment of the Condition of Israel in 1948. Thus, Zion symbolizes a longing by wandering peoples intended for a secure homeland. This could be a literal place such as in Ethiopia intended for Rastafari intended for example.

A number of Rastas consider themselves to stand for the Brood of Israel in contemporary era, plus their goal is to send home to Africa, or to Zion. The Dormition Minster (correct) is located upon that mount.