1650s in architecture

Buildings

 * 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)