1650s in architecture

Buildings and structures

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.^[1]
- 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)^[2]
1656: July 20 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (died 1723)

Buildings and structures