1650s in architecture

Buildings completed on the Grand Canal (Venice) • 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) ==References==