Gorno Cherkovishte Town Hall 1676

In 1938, Mayor Katsarov and Secretary Ivan Manchev, with Dimitar Baklarov as tenant, built the town hall. In the Middle Ages there was a Turkish village on the site of the present village of Gorno Cherkovishte. Its name was Synet eri. Its population was exclusively of Turks. The first Bulgarians who settled in these places came from the east along the Gürla River and the Blue River. In this way, a Bulgarian neighborhood gradually formed east of the Turkish village. Near the river there was an old monastery with male and female cells. In the monastery there was the church of St. "John the Baptist", built in 1858 with icons from 1860 by Konstantinov Zograf. The first cell school was in the old church from 1860 (the monastery and church do not exist at present). Teachers - Georgi Petrov Ispirev, pope Anton Penev. During the spring floods of the river Gürla, the monastery was often flooded, so the people of the village built a new church "St Archangel Michael". The frescoes are by Petko Ganin from Kazanlak. In the present church the first priest was Anton Penev, ordained by Exarch Antim I in 1872. The church bell is one of the most melodious in Bulgaria, made, cast in Russia, brought from Kazanlak railway station with a buffalo team by Penyu Rusev Buyukliev, who was on the church board. They also called the upper churchyard. Hence the name of the village became Gorno Cherkovishte.