Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, Hall of Memory in Shahibaug, Ahmedabad, India

The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial occupies the Moti Shahi Mahal, a Mughal palace begun by Shah Jahan between 1616 and 1623. Four pillars mark the four wings, one floor and the central hall; the flat roof gives a wide view. The memorial fills the ground-floor central hall and four adjacent rooms, with the Tagore room on the first floor of the right wing.

Shah Jahan built the Moti Shahi Mahal between 1616 and 1623 while governor of Mughal Gujarat, and his father Jahangir ordered a marble seat for its garden. The British used the palace after the Ahmedabad Cantonment was set up in the mid-19th century, adding two wings around 1835. It served as Gujarat's Raj Bhavan from 1960 to 1978, and the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel memorial opened on 7 March 1980.

The ground-floor Patel galleries hold portraits of Patel, his family and his associates in the freedom struggle, with captions and quotations tracing his youth, education and legal career. One room covers his work integrating the princely states; another displays his khadi kurta, jacket, dhoti, boots and chappals, kept in a room right of the main entrance.

The memorial stands in Shahibaug, beside the Sabarmati riverbank and near Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. The palace's central hall and four adjoining rooms are on the ground floor, with the Tagore room on the first floor of the right wing. The gardens and Sardar Open Air Theatre lie around the building.

On the first floor, in the right wing, the room where Rabindranath Tagore stayed in 1878 at age seventeen is kept as the Tagore Memorial Room. There he wrote his only ghost story, The Hungry Stones, and his first song. Portraits and a large statue of the poet are displayed in the main room.