1650s in architecture

none March 2015 1650 architecture __TOC__ Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1650 Buildings thumb|Taj Mahal completed thumb|Ca' Pesaro 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.52-55 Newington Green 1293320 1954 2015-03-15 "one of the most remarkable groups of seventeenth-century buildings in London." 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)Christoph Dientzenhofer – German architect https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christoph-Dientzenhofer Encyclopedia Britannica 16 January 2018 en 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 * Architecture