Abstract
According to Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic building church after the
Second Vatican Council reduced the value of sacredness so that the
sacredness of the expression of the form of a Catholic church is
considered to fade. This statement from the Pope is exciting to be an
issue for researchers to search for indicator values of the Catholic
Church’s sacredness before the Second Vatican Council. The Cathedral
Church was founded before the Second Vatican Council. This study’s
method is a quantitative method by taking as many as 250 respondents who
were grouped as users and observers as defining the population and
purposive sampling to determine the impression of the sacredness felt by
respondents through several indicator values. The conclusions obtained
in this quantitative analysis are the sacred indicator values of the
church received from; (1) Variables of the liturgy function; (2)
Variables of form expression. The findings in this study are: (1) The
Catholic Church founded before the Second Vatican Council is still
imperfect; that is, this church is not following its ritual function.
(2) The expression of the Catholic Church’s form can be said to be
sacred if the form’s concept follows the function by considering
indicator values of sacredness.