Editing Arya Samaj (section)

==Contemporary Arya Samaj==

===Arya Samaj in India===
Arya Samaj schools and [[temple]]s are found in almost all major cities and as well as in rural areas (especially in the North) of India. Some are authorised to conduct weddings. The Samaj is associated with the [[Dayanand Anglo Vedic]] (DAV) schools which number over eight hundred.<ref>[http://www.thearyasamaj.org/home Arya Samaj] Arya Samaj website.</ref> There are eight million followers of the Samaj in India.<ref>{{cite book|author=Adam, Michel|title=Indian Africa: Minorities of Indian-Pakistani Origin in Eastern Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQPqCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA315|date=22 October 2015|publisher=Mkuki na Nyota Publishers|isbn=978-9987-08-297-1|page=77}}</ref>

===Arya Samaj around the world===
Arya Samaj is active in countries including [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Fiji]], [[Australia]],<ref name="aryasamajqueensland">[http://www.aryasamajqueensland.com/ Arya Samaj Queensland] website. Retrieved 3 February 2017.</ref> [[South Africa]],{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} [[Kenya]],<ref>Ombongi K. S. [http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/19703 ''Hindu Socio-Religious Organizations in Kenya: A Case Study of Arya Samaj, 1903–1978''] [[University of Nairobi]] 1993.</ref> [[Mauritius]]<ref>Eisenlohr P. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QFzcGV9FlxgC&q=arya&pg=PR7 ''Little India: Diaspora, Time, and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius''] University of California Press, Berkeley, California 2006. p. 36. {{ISBN|978-0-520-24879-3}}.</ref> and other countries where a significant [[Hindu diaspora]] is present. The Arya Samaj in Kenya runs several schools in [[Nairobi]] and other cities of the country.<ref>{{cite book|author=Adam, Michel|title=Indian Africa: Minorities of Indian-Pakistani Origin in Eastern Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQPqCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA315|date=22 October 2015|publisher=Mkuki na Nyota Publishers|isbn=978-9987-08-297-1|page=47}}</ref>

Immigrants to [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] from [[South Asia]], [[Eastern Africa]], [[South Africa]], and the [[Caribbean]] countries have set up Arya Samaj temples for their respective communities.<ref name=Vancouver>Coward H. [http://www.mbc.metropolis.net/assets/uploads/files/wp/1999/WP99-04.pdf ''Hindus in Canada, the Third National Metropolis Conference''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230231847/http://www.mbc.metropolis.net/assets/uploads/files/wp/1999/WP99-04.pdf# |date=30 December 2013 }} Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis 1999.</ref> Most major metropolitan areas of the United States have chapters of Arya Samaj.<ref>[http://aryasamaj.com/global/ Arya Pratinidhi Sabha America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231004055/http://aryasamaj.com/global/ |date=31 December 2013 }} Arya Samaj website. Retrieved 30 December 2013.</ref>