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{{Short description|American physician and religious leader}}
[[File:Cyrus Teed.jpg|thumb|Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, alias Koresh]]

'''Cyrus Reed Teed''' (October 18, 1839 – December 22, 1908) was a [[United States|U.S.]] [[eclectic medicine|eclectic physician]] and [[alchemy|alchemist]] turned [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] religious leader and self-proclaimed [[messiah]]. In 1869, claiming [[revelation|divine inspiration]], Teed took on the name '''[[Cyrus|Koresh]]''' and proposed a new set of scientific and religious ideas which he called [[Koreshanity]], including the belief in the existence of a concave, or "cellular", [[Hollow Earth]] [[cosmology]] positing that the sky, humanity, and the surface of the Earth exist on the inside of a universe-encompassing sphere.

In New York in the 1870s, he founded the [[Koreshan Unity]], a commune whose rule of conduct was based on his teachings. Other similar communities were established in Chicago and San Francisco. After 1894, the group concentrated itself in the small Florida town of [[Estero, Florida|Estero]], seeking to build a "[[New Jerusalem]]" in that locale, peaking at 250 residents during the first decade of the 20th century. Following Teed's death late in 1908 the group went into decline, finally disappearing in 1961, leaving the [[Koreshan State Historic Site]] behind.