 After the Ottoman conquest in 1455, the church was not abandoned and is referenced throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.In 1690, the Church is abandoned and the region is largely depopulated amid Ottoman atrocities in Kosovo, amid the Great Turkish War in which Serb rebels fought on the side of the Holy League.Patriarch Arsenije III Čarnojević leads tens of thousands of Serb families to the Christian north.