Editing 1650s in architecture

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==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1650}}
===Buildings===
[[File:Taj Mahal 2, Agra, India.jpg|thumb|[[Taj Mahal]] completed]]
[[File:(Venice) Ca' Pesaro.jpg|thumb|[[Ca' Pesaro]] on the [[Grand Canal (Venice)]]]]
* 1650
** The [[Marian column]] in [[Prague]] is erected (destroyed [[1918 in architecture|1918]]).
** Talar Ashraf palace in [[Isfahan]], [[Persia]], is built.
** ''(approximate date)'' The [[Khaju Bridge]] in Isfahan is built.
* 1651
** [[:File:Fara Poznan Fasada.jpg|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 [[1632 in architecture|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 house]]s at 52–55 [[Newington Green]] in London, perhaps by Thomas Pidcock, are completed.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=52-55 Newington Green|num=1293320|year=1954|accessdate=2015-03-15}} "one of the most remarkable groups of seventeenth-century buildings in London."</ref>
** [[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 in architecture|1710]]).
** [[Saleh Kamboh Mosque]] in [[Lahore]] is founded.
** [[Tomb of Nadira Begum]] in Lahore is started.

==Births==
* 1650: December 1 ''(bapt.)'' – [[William Talman (architect)|William Talman]], English architect, landscape designer and collector (died [[1719 in architecture|1719]])
* 1651: March 2 – [[Carlo Gimach]], Maltese architect, engineer and poet (died [[1730 in architecture|1730]])
* 1651: September 3 – [[Roger North (biographer)|Roger North]], English lawyer, biographer and amateur of the arts (died [[1734 in architecture|1734]])
* 1654: May 23 – [[Nicodemus Tessin the Younger]], Swedish baroque architect (died [[1728 in architecture|1728]])
* 1655: July 7 – [[Christoph Dientzenhofer]], Bavarian baroque architect (died [[1722 in architecture|1722]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Christoph Dientzenhofer – German architect|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christoph-Dientzenhofer|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=16 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* 1656: July 20 – [[Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach]], Austrian baroque architect (died [[1723 in architecture|1723]])

==Deaths==
* 1652: June 21 – [[Inigo Jones]], English architect and theatrical designer (born [[1573 in architecture|1573]])
* 1655: July 15 – [[Girolamo Rainaldi]], Italian architect (born [[1570 in architecture|1570]])

==References==
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