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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 Region{{cite web |url=https://new-faces-new-places.com/2016/10/03/awra-amba-the-anarcho-feminist-utopia-that-actually-works/ |title=Awra Amba: the anarcho-feminist utopia that actually works |date=3 October 2016 |access-date=11 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172946/https://new-faces-new-places.com/2016/10/03/awra-amba-the-anarcho-feminist-utopia-that-actually-works/ |archive-date=11 October 2018 |url-status=live}}{{better source needed|date=January 2024|reason=Cited source is a travel blog (see WP:BLOGS)}}

= South Africa =

Asia and Oceania

= Australia =

= India =

= Israel =

{{See also|Kibbutz}}

= Japan =

= New Zealand =

= Syria =

  • Jinwar (founded 2016){{Cite web |last=Rosen |first=Kenneth R. |date=March 31, 2021 |title=Jinwar Women's Village: Carving a Progressive Enclave Amid Syria's Civil War |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/jinwar-womens-village-carving-progressive-enclave-amid-syrias-civil-war |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=The Washington Institute |language=en}}

Europe

= France =

  • Community of the Ark, La Borie Noble
  • Jansiac{{Cite journal |journal=Silence |number=192–193 |date=July–August 1995 |url=https://archive.org/details/silence_192-193/page/n23/mode/2up |language=fr |title=Communautes – Jansiac: La Nef des Fous |pages=24–29 |last=Bernard |first=Michel |issn=0756-2640 |df=mdy-all }}
  • Longo Maï, Limans (1973–present){{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
  • Taizé Community, Taizé, France

= Denmark =

  • Det Nødvendige Seminarium (DNS){{cite web |title=What is DNS? |website=DNS The Necessary Teacher Training College |date=2018-02-08 |url=https://www.dns-tvind.dk/what-is-dns/ |access-date=2020-08-13}}
  • Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen
  • {{interlanguage link|Friland|da}} (2002–present) {{cite web |url=http://www.friland.org |title=Official Website of Friland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104051100/http://www.friland.org/ |archive-date=4 January 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dr.dk/tv/program/dr-friland |title=DR Friland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913084634/http://www.dr.dk/tv/program/dr-friland |archive-date=13 September 2012}}
  • Svanholm
  • Dyssekilde eco-community (and book town) (Torup, Denmark). Based on the thoughts of the mystic Martinus. (1987-present?)Jan Campbell, The Bookshop Book (2014), p. 141"Dyssekilde eco-community" https://trap-lex-dk.translate.goog/%C3%98kosamfundet_Dyssekilde?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc accessed June 7, 2025

= Italy =

= Germany =

  • Bruderhof Communities, originally in Germany but spread to other countries since{{Cite news|url=http://www.ic.org/directory/bruderhof/|title=Bruderhof – Fellowship for Intentional Community|work=Fellowship for Intentional Community|access-date=2017-05-24|language=en-US}}
  • Kommune Niederkaufungen
  • ZEGG

= Greece =

  • Eutopia project (community){{cite book |last=Apoifis |first=Nicholas |title=Anarchy in athens : an ethnography of militancy, emotions and violence |publisher=Manchester University Press |publication-place=Manchester |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-5261-0803-6 |oclc=989813040 |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fm-5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT158}}
  • Free and Real

= Montenegro =

  • Montelibero, a libertarian community{{Cite web |title=Crna Gora jes' malena...al će biti libertarijanska? |url=https://www.vijesti.me/blogovi/579906/crna-gora-jes-malenaal-ce-biti-libertarijanska |website=vijesti.me}} based on ideas of the Free State Project

= Portugal =

  • Ecoaldea Vegetariana Espiral, Cabeceiras de Basto{{cite web |title=Las ecoaldeas en la península ibérica |website=news.soliclima.com |url=https://news.soliclima.com/noticias/articulos/las-ecoaldeas-en-la-peninsula-iberica |language=es |access-date=2023-03-19}}{{cite web |title=QUE HACER PARA VISITAR LA ECOALDEA |trans-title=What to do to visit La Ecoaldea |website=Ecoaldea Vegetariana ESPIRAL |date=2012-06-20 |url=https://ecoaldeavegetariana.wordpress.com/para-visitar-la-ecoaldea/ |language=pt |access-date=2023-03-19}}{{better source needed|date=March 2023|reason=Blog; user generated content}}
  • Tamera

= Russia =

  • Life and Labor Commune (1921–1939){{citation |author-last1=Sanborn |author-first1=Josh |title=Review of Edgerton, William, ed., Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia |date=March 1996 |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=312 |language=en |publisher=H-Russia, H-Review |df=mdy-all |access-date=7 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621182444/https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=312 |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=live}}

= Spain =

  • {{ill|Lakabe|es}} in Lacabe{{Cite web|title=Lakabe Ecovillage {{!}} GEN sites|url=http://sites.ecovillage.org/video/lakabe-ecovillage|access-date=2016-05-12|website=sites.ecovillage.org}}
  • {{ill|FAMILIAFELIZ|es}} in Cervera del Maestre (CS){{Cite web|title=Familiafeliz {{!}} .EU|url=http://www.familiafeliz.eu|access-date=2024-04-12|website=www.familiafeliz.eu}}
  • Global Tribe, Andalucia

= Sweden =

= United Kingdom =

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  • Dial House in England (1970–present)See "crass retirement cottage," nest magazine #21, summer 2003, pp 106-121{{Better source needed|date=February 2024}}
  • Findhorn in Scotland
  • Frestonia in London (1970s–1982){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/30/frestonia-london-commune-squatters|title=Freedom for Frestonia: the London commune that cut loose from the UK|first=John|last=Harris|date=30 October 2017|website=The Guardian|access-date=15 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618152247/https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/30/frestonia-london-commune-squatters|archive-date=18 June 2018|url-status=live}}
  • New Creation Christian Community (closed)
  • Tinker's Bubble in England
  • Rubha Phoil in Scotland{{Cite web|title=Rubha Phoil {{!}} |url=https://www.rubhaphoil.org|access-date=2023-07-31|website=www.rubhaphoil.org}}
  • Stapleton Colony in England (1921–present){{cite book|author-last=Hardy |author-first=Dennis |title=Utopian England: Community Experiments, 1900-1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiTBDbHoS7MC&pg=PA181 |year=2000 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-419-24670-1 |page=181}}
  • Whiteway Colony{{cite book|author-last=Franks |author-first=Benjamin |title=Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms |year=2006 |publisher=AK Press/Dark Star |isbn=978-1-904859-40-6 |page=4 |title-link=Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms}}{{cite book|author-last1=Headley |author-first1=Gwyn |author-link1=Gwyn Headley |author-last2=Meulenkamp |author-first2=Wim |title=Follies, grottoes & garden buildings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAkzAQAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Aurum |page=250 |isbn=9781854106254}}

North America

= Canada =

= United States =

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==Midwestern United States==

== Northeastern United States ==

  • The Abode of the Message, New Lebanon, New York
  • Bruderhof Communities New York{{Cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-uk-christian-sect-members-18414162|title=Inside radical christian sect|work=Mirror |access-date=2019-10-26|language=en-US}}
  • Bryn Gweled Homesteads, Southampton, Pennsylvania{{Cite web|url=http://bryngweled.org/|title=Bryn Gweled Homesteads Welcome Page|website=bryngweled.org|access-date=2020-01-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/real_estate/20150426_At_Bryn_Gweled_Homesteads__intentionally_making_a_community_for_75_years.html|title=At Bryn Gweled Homesteads, intentionally making a community for 75 years|last=Writer|first=Alan J. Heavens, Inquirer Real Estate|website=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=26 April 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-13}}
  • 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{{cite web |url=http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/WarrenJosiah/hs526a.htm |title=An Experiment in Anarchy: Modern Times, the notorious and short-lived utopian village that preceded Brentwood |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809191756/http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/WarrenJosiah/hs526a.htm |archive-date=9 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}
  • Mohegan Colony, Mohegan Lake, New York
  • Rachel Carson EcoVillage, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania{{Cite web|url=https://rachelcarsonecovillage.org/|title=Rachel Carson EcoVillage}}
  • Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine
  • Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey.(Upton Sinclair was a founder)

==Southern United States==

== Western United States ==

  • Alpha Farm, Deadwood, Oregon{{cite web |last=Robinson |first=Paul |title=Community at its finest: Alpha Farm provides a tight-knit cooperative outside Eugene |website=Daily Emerald |date=2019-06-03 |url=https://www.dailyemerald.com/arts-culture/community-at-its-finest-alpha-farm-provides-a-tight-knit-cooperative-outside-eugene/article_fe5fbb70-8627-11e9-835f-e37a8959d79b.html |access-date=2023-03-19}}
  • Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage, founded by the Global Community Communications Alliance, Tumacacori, Arizona{{cite news |title=Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage |website=Global Ecovillage Network |date=2022-03-14 |url=https://ecovillage.org/project/global-community-communications-all-0/ |access-date=2023-03-19}}{{cite web |last=Blust |first=Kendal |title=EcoVillage residents live apart, reach out |website=Nogales International |date=2023-02-13 |url=https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/ecovillage-residents-live-apart-reach-out/article_c679aaec-4261-11e7-83b7-b3912fddac53.html |access-date=2023-03-19}}
  • Black Bear Ranch, an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California
  • Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (2020){{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
  • Drop City, Colorado
  • Equality Colony, Washington
  • Halcyon, California
  • Home, Washington{{cite book |author-last=LeWarne |author-first=Charles Pierce |title=Utopias on Puget Sound: 1885–1915 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |year=1975 |pages=168–226 |isbn=0295974443}}
  • Kaliflower Commune, San Francisco, California
  • Lafayette Morehouse, Lafayette, California
  • Slab City, California ({{circa|1961}}–present){{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
  • Stone Curves, Tucson, Arizona{{cite web |last=Fimbres |first=Gabrielle |title=Stone Curves turns 10 with strong sense of community |website=Arizona Daily Star |date=2023-03-10 |url=https://tucson.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/home/where-we-live/stone-curves-turns-10-with-strong-sense-of-community/article_110b12c8-5285-5cde-bf77-5fb486db83c5.html |access-date=2023-03-19}}
  • 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.

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Latin America

= Brazil =

  • Cecília Colony{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=Peter H. |author-link=Peter Marshall (author, born 1946) |title=Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism |publisher=Fontana Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-00-686245-1 |location=London |pages=507–508 |oclc=1042028128 |quote=[I]n 1890 Dr Giovanni Rossi, an Italian agronomist, founded in the famous Cecilia colony in Parana one of the first anarchist communities in Latin America.}}

= Colombia =

= Mexico =

  • Credit Foncier Company (Topolobampo), 1886–1900?. Led by {{ill|Albert Kimsey Owen|es}}.{{cite thesis |last=Matherly |first=Sarah Copenhaver |title='The Age of Associated Effort': Communitarian Reform at Topolobampo, Mexico, 1872–1896 |degree=PhD |publisher=Princeton University Department of History |publication-place=Ann Arbor |date=September 2019 |isbn=978-1-6879-8353-4 |oclc=1238021207 |url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01pr76f6344 |id={{ProQuest|}} }}

See also

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References

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External links

  • [https://www.ic.org/directory/ Foundation for Intentional Community database]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724220657/http://www.newcreation.org.uk/links/ Links to Christian Intentional Communities]
  • [http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/ Diggers & Dreamers UK Directory]
  • [http://www.gondwanasanctuary.org/ Gondwana Sanctuary]

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