diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/ArgsDefinition/MergeArgs.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/ArgsDefinition/MergeArgs.cs
index ce7203de..3e6791e3 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/ArgsDefinition/MergeArgs.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/ArgsDefinition/MergeArgs.cs
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.ArgsDefinition
     public class MergeArgs : LayerArgs
     {
         public Tensors Inputs { get; set; }
+        public int Axis { get; set; }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs
index 68ad21c2..87f16380 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ would not be rank 1.", tensor.op.get_attr("axis")));
 
             var ret = tensor.TensorShape.unknown_shape(shape.dims[0]);
             var value = constant_value(tensor);
-            if (value != null)
+            if (!(value is null))
             {
                 int[] d_ = { };
                 foreach (int d in value)
@@ -418,7 +418,6 @@ would not be rank 1.", tensor.op.get_attr("axis")));
                         d_[d_.Length] = -1; // None
                 }
                 ret = ret.merge_with(new TensorShape(d_));
-
             }
             return ret;
         }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/BackendImpl.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/BackendImpl.cs
index 39557173..a55791d2 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/BackendImpl.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/BackendImpl.cs
@@ -226,5 +226,25 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras
             x.set_shape(output_shape);
             return x;
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Concatenates a list of tensors alongside the specified axis.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="tensors">list of tensors to concatenate.</param>
+        /// <param name="axis">concatenation axis.</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public Tensor concatenate(Tensors tensors, int axis = -1)
+        {
+            if(axis < 0)
+            {
+                var rank = tensors[0].NDims;
+                if (rank > -1)
+                    axis %= rank;
+                else
+                    axis = 0;
+            }
+
+            return array_ops.concat(tensors, axis);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.cs
index 958ef07e..22fba034 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.cs
@@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Engine
             tf.init_scope();
 
             tf.Context.eager_mode();
-            build(inputs.shape);
+            build(inputs);
             tf.Context.restore_mode();
 
             built = true;
         }
 
-        protected virtual void build(TensorShape input_shape)
+        protected virtual void build(Tensors inputs)
         {
             built = true;
         }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/BatchNormalization.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/BatchNormalization.cs
index 18bd5c55..bbbe495c 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/BatchNormalization.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/BatchNormalization.cs
@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
             axis = args.Axis.dims;
         }
 
-        protected override void build(TensorShape input_shape)
+        protected override void build(Tensors inputs)
         {
+            TensorShape input_shape = inputs.shape;
             var ndims = input_shape.ndim;
             foreach (var (idx, x) in enumerate(axis))
                 if (x < 0)
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Convolutional.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Convolutional.cs
index a7eb9aa6..7814f9c0 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Convolutional.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Convolutional.cs
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
             _tf_data_format = conv_utils.convert_data_format(data_format, rank + 2);
         }
 
-        protected override void build(TensorShape input_shape)
+        protected override void build(Tensors inputs)
         {
+            TensorShape input_shape = inputs.shape;
             int channel_axis = data_format == "channels_first" ? 1 : -1;
             int input_channel = channel_axis < 0 ?
                 input_shape.dims[input_shape.ndim + channel_axis] :
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Dense.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Dense.cs
index a01f3df7..7f992c5e 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Dense.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Dense.cs
@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
             this.inputSpec = new InputSpec(min_ndim: 2);
         }
 
-        protected override void build(TensorShape input_shape)
+        protected override void build(Tensors inputs)
         {
+            TensorShape input_shape = inputs.shape;
             var last_dim = input_shape.dims.Last();
             var axes = new Dictionary<int, int>();
             axes[-1] = last_dim;
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Embedding.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Embedding.cs
index 9962ff25..36bbd152 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Embedding.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Embedding.cs
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
             SupportsMasking = mask_zero;
         }
 
-        protected override void build(TensorShape input_shape)
+        protected override void build(Tensors inputs)
         {
             tf.Context.eager_mode();
             embeddings = add_weight(shape: (input_dim, output_dim),
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/LayersApi.Merging.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/LayersApi.Merging.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..beaabd48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/LayersApi.Merging.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+using NumSharp;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Keras.ArgsDefinition;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
+{
+    public partial class LayersApi
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Layer that concatenates a list of inputs.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="axis">Axis along which to concatenate.</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public Concatenate Concatenate(int axis = -1)
+            => new Concatenate(new MergeArgs
+            {
+                Axis = axis
+            });
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Merge.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Merge.cs
index bfed03ad..c0fa3f36 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Merge.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Merge.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
 
         }
 
-        protected override void build(TensorShape input_shape)
+        protected override void build(Tensors inputs)
         {
             // output_shape = input_shape.dims[1^];
         }
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
             return _merge_function(inputs);
         }
 
-        Tensors _merge_function(Tensors inputs)
+        protected virtual Tensors _merge_function(Tensors inputs)
         {
             var output = inputs[0];
             foreach (var i in range(1, inputs.Length))
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Merging/Concatenate.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Merging/Concatenate.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a4309949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Merging/Concatenate.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Keras.ArgsDefinition;
+using Tensorflow.Keras.Engine;
+using Tensorflow.Keras.Utils;
+using static Tensorflow.Binding;
+using static Tensorflow.KerasApi;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Layer that concatenates a list of inputs.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class Concatenate : Merge
+    {
+        MergeArgs args;
+        int axis => args.Axis;
+
+        public Concatenate(MergeArgs args) : base(args)
+        {
+            this.args = args;
+        }
+
+        protected override void build(Tensors inputs)
+        {
+            /*var shape_set = new HashSet<TensorShape>();
+            var reduced_inputs_shapes = inputs.Select(x => x.shape).ToArray();
+            for (var i = 0; i < reduced_inputs_shapes.Length; i++)
+            {
+                int seq = -1;
+                TensorShape shape = reduced_inputs_shapes[i].Where(x =>
+                {
+                    seq++;
+                    return seq != i;
+                }).ToArray();
+                shape_set.Add(shape);
+            }*/
+        }
+
+        protected override Tensors _merge_function(Tensors inputs)
+        {
+            return keras.backend.concatenate(inputs, axis: axis);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowNET.UnitTest/Keras/Layers.Merging.Test.cs b/test/TensorFlowNET.UnitTest/Keras/Layers.Merging.Test.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5dad1390
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/TensorFlowNET.UnitTest/Keras/Layers.Merging.Test.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
+using NumSharp;
+using Tensorflow;
+using static Tensorflow.KerasApi;
+
+namespace TensorFlowNET.UnitTest.Keras
+{
+    [TestClass]
+    public class LayersMergingTest : EagerModeTestBase
+    {
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void Concatenate()
+        {
+            var x = np.arange(20).reshape(2, 2, 5);
+            var y = np.arange(20, 30).reshape(2, 1, 5);
+            var z = keras.layers.Concatenate(axis: 1).Apply(new Tensors(x, y));
+            Assert.AreEqual((2, 3, 5), z.shape);
+        }
+    }
+}