diff --git a/docs/workers.rst b/docs/workers.rst
index 3ba5879f76..7552455a4e 100644
--- a/docs/workers.rst
+++ b/docs/workers.rst
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ endpoints matching the following regular expressions::
     ^/_matrix/federation/v1/event_auth/
     ^/_matrix/federation/v1/exchange_third_party_invite/
     ^/_matrix/federation/v1/send/
+    ^/_matrix/key/v2/query
 
 The above endpoints should all be routed to the federation_reader worker by the
 reverse-proxy configuration.
diff --git a/synapse/app/federation_reader.py b/synapse/app/federation_reader.py
index b116c17669..7da79dc827 100644
--- a/synapse/app/federation_reader.py
+++ b/synapse/app/federation_reader.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from twisted.web.resource import NoResource
 
 import synapse
 from synapse import events
-from synapse.api.urls import FEDERATION_PREFIX
+from synapse.api.urls import FEDERATION_PREFIX, SERVER_KEY_V2_PREFIX
 from synapse.app import _base
 from synapse.config._base import ConfigError
 from synapse.config.homeserver import HomeServerConfig
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ from synapse.replication.slave.storage.registration import SlavedRegistrationSto
 from synapse.replication.slave.storage.room import RoomStore
 from synapse.replication.slave.storage.transactions import SlavedTransactionStore
 from synapse.replication.tcp.client import ReplicationClientHandler
+from synapse.rest.key.v2 import KeyApiV2Resource
 from synapse.server import HomeServer
 from synapse.storage.engines import create_engine
 from synapse.util.httpresourcetree import create_resource_tree
@@ -99,6 +100,9 @@ class FederationReaderServer(HomeServer):
                         ),
                     })
 
+                if name in ["keys", "federation"]:
+                    resources[SERVER_KEY_V2_PREFIX] = KeyApiV2Resource(self)
+
         root_resource = create_resource_tree(resources, NoResource())
 
         _base.listen_tcp(