JTA — Iceland has welcomed its first permanent Torah scroll.

The final letters of the Torah were written at a reception last Thursday at the home of the US Ambassador to Iceland, Jeffrey Ross Gunter, who is Jewish, according to Chabad.com.

The new scroll, which took a year to write, was donated to the Jewish community of Reykjavik by Uri Krauss, of Zurich, Switzerland.

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On Sunday, members of the city’s Jewish community brought the Torah scroll to the local Chabad Jewish Center.

The Chabad center was opened in 2018, the first full-time Jewish institution on the island nation. The center has been borrowing the Torah scroll that it used every Shabbat morning until now.