 A Calvinist church was founded here in 1551 by Marcin Zborowski, an influential nobleman, voivode of Kalisz.In 1649 King John II Casimir confirmed the town status of Stopnica, and banned Jews from settling in the market square and around the parish church.Stopnica maintained its position of an important urban center of Sandomierz Voivodeship, but the town declined in the 1650s, during the Swedish invasion of Poland.