Ecclesiastical or organizational status Cathedral Completed 20 September 2008 Capacity 8,000 Spire 1 | Affiliation Protestant Opened 20 September 2008 | |
Similar Aula Simfonia Jakarta, Immanuel Church - Jakarta, Kramat Station, Tugu Church, Gereja Bethany Indonesia | ||
Messiah Cathedral (Katedral Mesias) is an Indonesian megachurch of the predominantly Indonesian-Chinese Indonesian Reformed Evangelical Church (Indonesian: Gereja Reformed Injili Indonesia (GRII)) in Kemayoran, Jakarta. It was opened on 20 September 2008 and inaugurated next day as a dedication to Lord Jesus Christ by Stephen Tong the leader of the GRII church.
This Cathedral "the head - front building" is part of the larger Reformed Millennium Center Indonesia (RMCI) development. The other parts of this "the body - middle building" are International Reformed Evangelical Seminary, the concert hall Aula Simfonia Jakarta, the International Reformed Evangelical Seminary (IRES) as many as its facilities (the library "Augustine", the "Martin Luther" Chapel, dormitory, mense, guest room, etc.), the rest "the tail - end building" are the art exhibition Sofilia Fine Arts Center, and Calvin Christian School.
The church has a capacity of about 8,000, as noted in various newspapers. Whereas it is a sum of many separated halls and chamber, i.e., 4,416 seats in Messiah Hall as main Hall, 1,753 seats in John Calvin Hall, 450 seats in Hosanna Hall, 300 seats in Agape Chamber.
National Gospel Convention (KIN) 2013 and 2014 have conducted in this place each year.