The final letters of the Torah were written at a reception held on Feb. 6 at the home of the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, Jeffrey Ross Gunter, who is Jewish. The new scroll, which took a year to write, was donated to the Jewish community of Reykjavik by Uri Krauss of Zurich, Switzerland.

On Feb. 16, members of the city’s Jewish community brought the Torah scroll to the local Chabad Jewish Center, the first full-time Jewish institution on the island nation. Up to now, the center has been borrowing a Torah for use every Shabbat morning.