1650s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1650
• * The Marian column in Prague is erected.
• * Talar Ashraf palace in Isfahan, Persia, is built.
• * The Khaju Bridge in Isfahan is built.
• 1651
• * Collegiate Church of Saint Magdalena and Saint Stanisław in Poznań is started.
• * 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 is completed.
• * The Radziwiłł Palace, Vilnius, is completed.
• 1654 – Construction of Skokloster Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins.
• 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 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.
• * Saleh Kamboh Mosque in Lahore is founded.
• * Tomb of Nadira Begum in Lahore is started.

Births

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

Deaths

• 1652: June 21 – Inigo Jones, English architect and theatrical designer
• 1655: July 15 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect