Zion City Moria

Zion City at Moria near Polokwane is the headquarters of the Zion Christian Church, which attracts more than a million pilgrims every Easter.

The church was initially based in Lekganyane's home village of Thabakgone, Boyne near Polokwane in South Africa's Limpopo Province, and was officially registered as a church in 1942, by which time congregations had additionally been established in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

History Origin The ZCC was formed by Engenas Lekganyane, a former member of the Free Church of Scotland, Apostolic Faith Mission and Zion Apostolic Church. ZCC members trace the founding of the church to a revelation which Lekganyane is said to have received from God in 1910.

Every year over 5 million people travel to Zion City Moria at Easter, in early September and over Christmas for religious celebrations.

The belief that the religious and administrative leader of the church (or bishop) is a mediator between the congregation and God; that, like Christ, he can perform supernatural acts The use of different mechanisms for faith-healing.

These include the laying-on of hands; the use of holy water; drinking of blessed tea and coffee; bloodletting with needles (now obsolete); the wearing of blessed cords or cloth and the burning of blessed papers called mogau.and faith-healing.

For more details about ZCC( Zion Christian Church) you can contact the following numbers:

Tel: 015 267 1124/5

Fax: 015 267 1124/5

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