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Church Architecture is the building built with a special purpose for Christian community unlike common Architecture. Also this place is where a human can build up spiritual relationship with the God through worship. Therefore, Church Architecture demands deep understanding about church as well as the essence of Architecture. That is, it should express the essence of Christian and believer's piety through form and, also, express spiritual meaning and symbol through space. A human makes transformed symbols of actual existence giving their own important meaning to it through symbolic behaviors. These symbols are expressed by language, art, religion and myth. For this reason, complicated organization related to each other in them makes the symbolic world of human concretely. Therefore, a human is living in the life meeting the symbolic world consciously or unconsciously which is formed through symbolic behaviors. In these days, with newly growing understanding of missionary roles of symbols in Korean Protestantism, more and more architects consider using symbols to express the essence of church and special characteristics. It is also because not only architects but also religious workers get interested in expressive characters of symbols when they have a plan building Church Architecture. This paper gets a purpose of giving the basic information of expressive characters of Aesthetical Number Symbols to plan of modern church architecture and the research was done especially in religious workers.