The table carries the Jain community's formal recognition in the United States to 2014, when the community stood established in American civic and interfaith life with its federations, temples, and university chairs, and Jain representatives took part in the nation's public ceremonies as a recognized religious community. The recognition settled what the nineteen-seventies migration had begun.
Tagged: Digambara Jain Shvetambara
The Event
- Date
- 2014 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Jain history
- Location
- Washington, DC; today Washington, DC
- Traditions
- Jainism
- Streams
- Digambara, Shvetambara
Primary Sources
- The Jain inscriptional and temple record of the period.
Secondary Sources
- Cort, John E. Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Provenance: HIST-0619; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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