In 1963, God led the community's founder, Elijah Hong (born Hong San-chi and later known to his followers as "Grandfather"), to Mt. Zion, which was then nothing but a precipitous, uninhabited wilderness.
1963 年，錫安山的大家長、信徒們暱稱「阿公」的洪以利亞（本名洪三期）在神的指引下找到這座山頭時，這裡是一片山壁陡峭、渺無人煙的荒地。