The building was transferred to local magnates, who provided ability to settle a town according to Magdeburg rights in 1349.

In 1416 town settlement process began and next year king Władysław Jagiełło gave an official document,[5][6] allowing Bełżyce to improve.

The Protestant “regime” was so well developed that the mayor issued a directive to residents to take part in services under the punishment of fine or even imprisonment.

In 1575, an intellectual religious exchange took place between Rabbi Jacob Nachman of Belzyce and Martin Czechowic of Lublin.

The next two centuries were a period of permanent religious riot (with Catholic attempt to retake the church in about 1630), the Cossacks assaults while Khmelnytsky’s uprising (massacre of Jews), fires and plagues of cholera and typhoid fever.

In 1795, as a result of the Third Partition of Poland, Bełżyce was annexed by the Austrian Empire, it became part of the newly established administrative region of West Galicia.

After the January Uprising, as part of anti-Polish repressions Bełżyce was stripped of its town rights, as it later turned out for nearly 100 years.

The Jews kept in the crowded area of the ghetto were decimated by typhus and the terrible sanitary conditions.