This is the place where Sri Lanka's independence ceremony was held on February 4, 1948 to commemorate the country's separation from British colonial rule. In the center of the square, an independent memorial hall was built to imitate the hall where the Kantian royal family received tributes. To the north of the memorial hall, a statue of Sri Lanka's founding prime minister, Sennayak, was surrounded by a lion statue symbolizing the Sinhalese. Each lion was represented by a lion. Think that the king, very sacred.