[4] The local church, built on a slight elevation north of the settlement, is dedicated to Saint Leonard and belongs to the Parish of Ig.

[5] The postwar communist authorities prevented it from being rebuilt and it was left in ruins.

[5] It was completely reconstructed in its original form and dimensions between 1997 and 1998, in time for the 500th anniversary of its first mention in a written source.

Gornji Ig is the site of a mass grave from the period immediately after the Second World War.

The Kosec Shaft Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Koščevo brezno) is located on the southern slope of Mount Krim, about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) southwest of Gornji Ig, on the left side of the gravel road to Rakitna.