Skapià ¡kis is a town in the Kupià ¡kis district municipality, Lithuania. It is situated on the shores of Lake Mituva and near the road and railway connecting PanevÃÂà ¾ys with Daugavpils. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 403.
The first church, named after Saint Hyacinth, was built in 1519. In 1752 the Dominican friars established a monastery. The monks opened a parish school, which had 40 students in 1805. Both the monastery and the school were closed by tsarist authorities after the Uprising of 1831. After the construction of the PanevÃÂà ¾ysâÂÂDaugavpils railway, the settlement grew into a trading town. It had 1,184 inhabitants in 1897. It declined sharply after World War II.