Anandji Kalyanji Trust
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Not to be confused with Kalyanji Anandji.
Anandji Kalyanji Trust (Gujarati શેઠ આનંદજી કલ્યાણજી પેઢી) is the largest and the oldest Jain trust, managed by lay Jains,[1] with headquarters at Ahmedabad which manages more than 1200 Jain temples.[2][3] The original charitable trust is said to have been founded somewhere in decades of 1630–40 AD and is running under name Anandji Kalyanji ni Pedhi or Anandji Kalyanji Trust since decade of 1720.[4]