List of intentional communities

Template:Short description This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle. They typically share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include collective households, co-housing communities, co-living, ecovillages, monasteries, communes, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. For directories, see external links below.

Africa

Ethiopia

• Awra Amba in the Amhara RegionTemplate:Better source needed

South Africa

• Orania near Kimberley in Northern Cape

Asia and Oceania

Australia

• Gondwana Sanctuary, Byron Bay, New South Wales
• House of Freedom (community), Brisbane, Queensland, founder Athol Gill
• House of the Gentle Bunyip, Melbourne, Victoria, founder Athol Gill
• House of the New World, Sydney, New South Wales, founder John Hirt
• Moora Moora, near Healesville, Victoria
• Rocky Cape Christian Community, Tasmania

India

• Auroville, Tamil Nadu

Israel

• Kibbutz Ketura
• Neve Shalom, Jerusalem

Japan

• Atarashiki-mura
• Owa Hutterite Colony

New Zealand

• Centrepoint (founded 1977)
• Gloriavale Christian Community (founded Template:Circa)
• Jerusalem/Hiruharama (1970–1972)
• Maungapohatu (founded 1907)
• Ohu communities (1974– Template:Circa)
• Parihaka (founded Template:Circa)
• Rātana Pā (founded Template:Circa)
• Riverside Community, New Zealand (founded 1941)

Syria

• Jinwar (founded 2016)

Europe

France

• Community of the Ark, La Borie Noble
• Jansiac
• Longo Maï, Limans (1973–present)
• Taizé Community, Taizé, France

Denmark

• Det Nødvendige Seminarium (DNS)
• Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen
• Template:Interlanguage link (2002–present)
• Svanholm
• Dyssekilde eco-community (and book town) (Torup, Denmark). Based on the thoughts of the mystic Martinus. (1987-present?)

Italy

• Federation of Damanhur, Piedmont
• Nomadelfia

Germany

• Bruderhof Communities, originally in Germany but spread to other countries since
• Kommune Niederkaufungen
• ZEGG

Greece

• Eutopia project (community)
• Free and Real

Montenegro

• Montelibero, a libertarian community based on ideas of the Free State Project

Portugal

• Ecoaldea Vegetariana Espiral, Cabeceiras de Basto
• Tamera

Russia

• Life and Labor Commune (1921–1939)

Spain

• Template:Ill in Lacabe
• Template:Ill in Cervera del Maestre (CS)
• Global Tribe, Andalucia

Sweden

• Ängsbacka

United Kingdom

• Braziers Park in South Oxfordshire, England
• Brithdir Mawr in Pembrokeshire, Wales
• Chemin Neuf Community and Community of Saint Anselm, Canterbury, England
• Dial House in England (1970–present)Template:Better source needed
• Findhorn in Scotland
• Frestonia in London (1970s–1982)
• New Creation Christian Community (closed)
• Tinker's Bubble in England
• Rubha Phoil in Scotland
• Stapleton Colony in England (1921–present)
• Whiteway Colony

North America

Canada

• Community Farm of the Brethren, Bright, Ontario
• Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community near Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, one of the Hutterite Christian Communities that exist in Canada and the United States, formerly in Australia as well.
• Hutterite colonies, in Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan
• New Oasis for Life Commune, BC
• Orthodox Mennonites, horse and buggy Mennonites, with groups in Ontario and Manitoba, Canada, and in the United States but founded in Ontario
• Poole's Land, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• Treehouse Village Ecohousing, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
• Whole Village, Alton, Ontario
• Yarrow Ecovillage, Chilliwack, British Columbia

United States

Midwestern United States

• Bishop Hill Colony, Bishop Hill, Illinois, founded by Swedish pietist Eric Jansson
• Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Rutledge, Missouri
• Dreamtime Village, West Lima, Wisconsin
• East Wind Community, Tecumseh, Missouri
• Elmendorf Christian Community, Mountain Lake, Minnesota
• Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage, Cincinnati, Ohio
• The Homestead at Denison University, Granville, Ohio
• Jesus People USA (JPUSA), Chicago, Illinois
• Nottingham Housing Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin
• People of Praise, South Bend, Indiana
• Project Neighborhood, intentional community ran by Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Reba Place Fellowship is an intentional Christian community located in Evanston, Illinois within the Chicago metro area
• Stelle, Illinois, until 1982 an intentional community of the Stelle group
• Sunrise Colony, Saginaw, Michigan
• Sunward Cohousing, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, Colorado
• Trumbullplex, Detroit, Michigan
• Utopia, Ohio
• Word of God (community), Ann Arbor, Michigan

Northeastern United States

• The Abode of the Message, New Lebanon, New York
• Bruderhof Communities New York
• Bryn Gweled Homesteads, Southampton, Pennsylvania
• Community of Jesus, Orleans, Massachusetts
• Mariapolis Luminosa (Focolare), Hyde Park, New York
• The Free State Project, a state where libertarians concentrate their numbers in the state of New Hampshire to influence democracy
• Ganas, Staten Island, New York
• Modern Times, Brentwood, New York
• Mohegan Colony, Mohegan Lake, New York
• Rachel Carson EcoVillage, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine
• Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey.(Upton Sinclair was a founder)

Southern United States

• Acorn Community, Mineral, Virginia
• Adelphi, Texas
• Alleluia Community, Augusta, Georgia
• Believers in Christ, Lobelville, Tennessee
• Caneyville Christian Community, Caneyville, Kentucky
• Celo Community, Burnsville, North Carolina, United States
• The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee
• Heathcote Community Freeland, Maryland
• Koinonia Farm, near Americus, Georgia
• Living energy farm, Louisa, Virginia
• Miccosukee Land Co-op, Tallahassee, Florida
• Noah Hoover Mennonites, existing in Belize, Canada, and the United States, but centered on Scottsville, Kentucky
• Paulville, Texas, a planned community for supporters of Ron Paul
• Serenbe, Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia
• Twelve Tribes communities, existing worldwide but founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Twin Oaks Community, Louisa, Virginia
• Vernon Community, Hestand, Kentucky
• The Werehouse, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Western United States

• Alpha Farm, Deadwood, Oregon
• Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage, founded by the Global Community Communications Alliance, Tumacacori, Arizona
• Black Bear Ranch, an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California
• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (2020)
• Drop City, Colorado
• Equality Colony, Washington
• Halcyon, California
• Home, Washington
• Kaliflower Commune, San Francisco, California
• Lafayette Morehouse, Lafayette, California
• Slab City, California (Template:Circa–present)
• Stone Curves, Tucson, Arizona
• The Seasteading Institute, an attempt to create artificial land in the ocean for libertarian migration. It is trying to build its first seastead in the San Francisco Bay, California.

Latin America

Brazil

• Cecília Colony

Colombia

• Gaviotas

Mexico

• Credit Foncier Company (Topolobampo), 1886–1900?. Led by Template:Ill.

See also

• Cohousing
• Communities Directory
• Cooperatives
• Ecovillage
• Egalitarian Communities
• Intentional community
• List of American utopian communities
• New Age communities
• Utopia
• Utopian socialism

External links

• Foundation for Intentional Community database
• Links to Christian Intentional Communities
• Diggers & Dreamers UK Directory
• Gondwana Sanctuary