Kërçisht i Poshtëm is a village in the former Maqellarë Municipality in Dibër County in northeastern Albania.

Kërçisht i Poshtëm (Dolna Kërçishta) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra with 13 households.

[4] During the first World War occupying Austro-Hungarian forces conducted a census (1916-1918) of parts of Albania they held and of Kërçisht i Poshtëm its ethnic demographics they recorded 314 Albanians while its religious composition was 314 Muslims.

[5] Linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli consider the overall census results to be accurate and reflective of much of the ethnic and religious demographics of the area during that time.

[7] Linguists Steinke and Ylli noted that unlike the Gollobordë region, the villages of the Maqellarë administrative unit area do not have any Muslim Slavic speaking inhabitants.