The Sthanakvasi movement was not the only Jain reform to reject temple image worship. In the eighteenth century, a further reform, the Terapanth tradition, split from the Sthanakvasi movement itself over questions of monastic discipline and organization, developing an even more centralized structure under a single monastic leader, the Acharya, while sharing the earlier movement's rejection of image veneration. Between them, the Sthanakvasi and Terapanth traditions represent a sustained current of aniconic reform within Svetambara Jainism running from the fifteenth century into the present.
Despite their historical significance, both traditions remain numerically smaller than the image-venerating Murtipujaka Svetambara majority, which continues to operate the large temple complexes most visitors associate with Jain religious architecture. The relationship between the traditions is generally one of coexistence rather than open conflict in the present day, with clear institutional and practical differences, separate monastic orders, separate meeting spaces, differing views on image worship, maintained alongside a shared core commitment to Mahavira's teaching and to non-violence as the central Jain ethical principle.
The Sthanakvasi reform is a useful reminder that Jain history, like that of many long-lived religious traditions, includes internal reform and re-reform rather than a single fixed practice inherited unchanged from antiquity.