Based on the data from the first Ottoman records, it can be notices that the Muslim population of Prishtina was symbolic in numbers until the second decade of the 16th century. Until the year 1526 that is, when only a small religious community of Muslims was present, with no presence of a specific Muslim neighborhoods as will happen after this date, when Muslim neighborhoods begin to increase year by year, until the total extinction of Christian neighborhoods. The extinction of the neighborhoods came as a result of religious changes, which is reflected in the Ottoman record books of the first centuries. For example, in the census of 1477, the Metropolit neighborhood had 34 houses, while 92 years later, this number had dropped to 8 houses.

As seen in the naming of Prishtina’s mahallas, the decline of Christian faith among city’s residents led Christian neighborhoods to take Muslim names. Thus, the fusion, or alienation of Christian mahallas into Muslim ones, is a sign of the increase in the number of converts to Islam and their spreading to the old mahallas which were already identified with Muslim names. However, although the Christian element in Prishtina declined, it did not disappear. This is clearly seen in the register of 1844, according to which Prishtina was comprised of 12 neighborhoods, with 779 houses, of which 298 were Christian and 6 Jewish (Jewish). While the latter (Jews) lived inside the city, 135 Christian houses are evident in the Jarar Çeribashi and Hasan Bey neighborhoods, while the rest of 163 houses were located on the outskirts of the kaza.