I don't know if this is the answer your looking for but here is my knowledge of this. Mormons were prosecuted and kicked out of were they were from and so they moved to Utah and built cities and they thought it was so beautiful and peaceful there they called it the new zion. That is my understanding of it.
Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon Church, led his followers across the western United States to settle in Utah in the mid-1800s. He established a theocratic government that promoted religious and social unity among his followers. Through careful planning and resource management, he developed agriculture, industry, and infrastructure in Utah, transforming it into a prosperous community that Mormons saw as a new Zion.
Brigham Young proposed a state called "Deseret", which included all of Utah and parts of Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona. He often refered to the area as Deseret or Zion.
The people of the Mormon Church of more properly, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, settled in Utah after their first leader Joseph Smith was murdered in Missouri. Their Church had been persecuted and they, under Brigham Young, were sure that they were going to found a new Zion in Utah. There is no record of the 1845 slogan coined by the journalist John L. O'Sullivan called the "manifest destiny" that led the Mormons to Utah.
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Brigham Young! He had way more children than Joseph Smith. Thus, Young had more Mormon descendants to further the Mormon movement . Brigham also didn't die as early as Joseph Smith, giving him more time to reign over "Zion"ANOTHER ANSWER:As there wouldn't be a Mormon movement without Joseph Smith, I'm going to say that he contributed more... he started the whole thing!
Zion Lodge is a hotel located in Zion National Park, Utah, United States.
Zion NP is in Utah.
The address of the Zion Human History Museum is: Zion National Park, Springdale, UT 84737
The Zion National Park is in southwestern Utah in the USA. It is near the Arizona border. It is close to St. George, Cedar City, Hurricane, Kanab & Springdale.
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Zion National Park, Utah.
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