1640s in architecture
# 1640s in architecture

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, is under construction, probably by Ustad Ahmad Lahori, to a commission by Shah Jahan. The mosque and jawab in the complex are completed in 1643.
* 1640
   * Børsen in Copenhagen, designed by Lorentz and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger and begun in 1619, is completed.
   * 59–60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (later known as Lindsey House), probably designed by Inigo Jones and begun about 1638, is completed.
   * Butterwalk, Dartmouth, England, is completed.
* 1641
   * Tron Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by John Mylne, is dedicated.
   * The Mauritshuis at The Hague in the Dutch Republic, designed by Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post, is completed.
* 1645–1648 – Main structure of Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, is built.
* 1646
   * The St. Mary Magdalene Chapel, Dingli, Malta, is rebuilt after the original chapel had collapsed.
   * Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan, Persia, is completed.
   * New Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, is begun to designs of 1636 by Christophe Gamard; it will not be completed until the later 18th century.
* 1647 – The Changdeokgung in Seoul, Korea, is reconstructed.
* 1648 – Buildings commissioned by Shah Jahan in India:
   * April 6: Red Fort, Delhi, is completed to designs by Ustad Ahmad Lahori.
   * Jama Mosque, Agra, is built.

## Births

* 1642 – Giovanni Barbara, Maltese architect and military engineer (died 1728)
* c.1645 – William Winde, English gentleman architect (died 1722)
* 1645: December 27 – Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, Swiss baroque architect working in Bavaria (died 1713)
* 1646: April 16 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French baroque architect (died 1708)
* 1647 – Henry Aldrich, English polymath and amateur architect (died 1710)
* 1648 – Pietro Perti, Ticinese architect and sculptor working in Lithuania (died 1714)

## Deaths

* 1646: April 10 – Santino Solari, Italian-born architect working in Salzburg (born 1576)
* 1647: August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born 1586/7)
