Residents of the regional capital of Curitiba, Brazil, are celebrating 120 years of a Jewish presence in the southern city by building a Chanukah menorah out of stones, one for each year since the first Jewish immigrants arrived from Poland.

Researchers have been coming through historical documents so that significant events can be etched into each year’s stone, reported Rabbi Yoseph Dubrawsky, director of the local Chabad-Lubavitch center. The structure will be placed in the center of the city alongside a giant 10-foot menorah that the rabbi has lit each year for the past 24 years.

In addition to the project, said Dubrawsky, children in the community have been packing hundreds of boxes of Chanukah candles to deliver to local Jewish families.

“We learn from Kabbalah that the seven branches of the menorah symbolize the seven kinds of Jews,” related Dubrawsky. “We’re trying to unite all the Jewish organizations, from the right to the left like the menorah itself, and together we’re trying to build a menorah that will spread the light of Torah and good deeds and unity through Chanukah.”