1650s in architecture
# 1650s in architecture

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* 1650
   * The Marian column in Prague is erected (destroyed 1918).
   * Talar Ashraf palace in Isfahan, Persia, is built.
   * (approximate date) The Khaju Bridge in Isfahan is built.
* 1651
   * Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint Stanisław in Poznań (Poland) is started (completed c.1701).
   * Karamon of Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine in Tokyo is built.
* 1652 – Church of the Resurrection, Kostroma.
* 1653
   * The Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra in India (begun in 1630 and probably designed by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri) is completed.
   * The Radziwiłł Palace, Vilnius, is completed.
* 1654 – Construction of Skokloster Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676).
* 1656
   * The Jama Masjid, Delhi, is completed.
   * The colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is started by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
* 1658
   * Terraced houses at 52–55 Newington Green in London, perhaps by Thomas Pidcock, are completed.
   * St Nicholas Abbey (plantation house) in Saint Peter, Barbados, is begun.
* 1659
   * Trashigang Dzong in Bhutan is built.
   * Ca' Pesaro on the Grand Canal (Venice) is started by Baldassarre Longhena (completed 1710).
   * Saleh Kamboh Mosque in Lahore is founded.
   * Tomb of Nadira Begum in Lahore is started.

## Births

* 1650: December 1 (bapt.) – William Talman, English architect, landscape designer and collector (died 1719)
* 1651: March 2 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (died 1730)
* 1651: September 3 – Roger North, English lawyer, biographer and amateur of the arts (died 1734)
* 1654: May 23 – Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Swedish baroque architect (died 1728)
* 1655: July 7 – Christoph Dientzenhofer, Bavarian baroque architect (died 1722)
* 1656: July 20 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (died 1723)

## Deaths

* 1652: June 21 – Inigo Jones, English architect and theatrical designer (born 1573)
* 1655: July 15 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (born 1570)
