Information from: The Gates of Zion by P.G.S. Hopwood Ref: 285.8 SST Original chapel opened 1805 new chapel opened 4th February 1863 Zion is a Hebrew word meaning fortress and was the name given to a hill south west of Jerusalem on which lay older and higher part of the Holy City, the portion often referred to as the 'City of David'. The hill served as a fortress. The Zion whose story we seek to chronicle is no hill with a city on it but a chapel hiding down the dingiest street in all Sheffield Hidden away at the back right off the main street and only approached by the narrowest of lanes As Canon Sydney Smith used to say 'in all my parishes I have never had a finer or more worthy folk than the people of vAttercliffe, but the beggars won't come to Church.'