The village is famous for its fortified church of Saint Michael.

[2] The village is mentioned for the first time in connection with the church of St. Michael so it was founded roughly at the end of the 15th or at the beginning of the 16th century.

Until the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Synkavichy was a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Between wars it ended up in the Second Polish Republic, within which it was administratively located in the Słonim County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship.

[3] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union afterwards, within which it was included into Zielva District, Belarusian SSR, now Belarus.