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From the medieval and well-known city of Vlora, today only the Muradia mosque is preserved in its center. According to the Turkish traveler Evlija Celebi, it was built by order of Sultan Sulejman who was in Vlora in 1537, when he was preparing to attack the coast of Italy and throw himself into Pulje. It was designed by architect Mimar Sinani (Albanian origin), one of the most prominent architects of the Ottoman Empire, also known as the "Michelangelo of the Orient". According to an inscription placed above the entrance, its construction was completed in 1542. In the middle of the century. XVII Celebiu describes the mosque as one of the most beautiful, with a carved stone dome, lead cover, and a fallen minaret. We inherit it from the centuries with partial reconstructions in the Minaret, Dome and Portico. Its portico was preserved until the beginning of the century. XX, as the photographic material of the time can prove. Despite these changes, the monument preserves the authentic values quite well, as a monumental construction achieved from an architectural point of view, being at the same time one of the first evidences of the history of this type of construction in our country. Until the 1920s, it was called the Lead Mosque (because the dome was covered with lead), while later it was called the Muradie Mosque because of the name of the neighborhood where it is located. After the Second World War, it was turned into an architecture museum for the city of Vlora, and it was also known by the public as the museum of cultural monuments of Vlora, because inside it were exhibited through sketches, photographs, floor plans, models, paintings and manuscript materials, the most important monuments highlights of Vlora District. Today it has returned to the use of the Muslim believers of the city.

The Muradie mosque is of the dome type and consists of the prayer hall and the minaret. The prayer hall is entered through the single gate on the north side, which is covered by a low arch. Opposite the entrance gate, in the prayer hall, is the mihrab with a semicircular cut, with stalactites at the top and surrounded by a rectangular frame, while to the right of it is the minbar. Apart from the north side where the entrance is located, the hall on the other three sides is lit by five windows on each side. The two lower windows are larger than the others and are covered with a sharp arch in the shape of a fin. On the outside, the cubic volume of the prayer hall is quite regular construction. The masonry, with stones and bricks, is skillfully built. It consists of two rows of beautifully squared stones, alternating with two rows of bricks. This construction technique is unique to our country and resembles the Istanbul mosques built by architect Sinani. The transition to the twelve-sided domed drum is direct without any narrowing, forming triangular roof pieces in the corners. The minaret is quite elegantly built with carved stones and has a large and elaborately crafted cauldron in its decor. In particular, the good construction work stands out, with stones worked in the form of stalactites and the cantilevered part of the cauldron, one of the most successful examples in our country.