1656 in architecture

Buildings and structures

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
• in Poznań (Poland) is started (completed c.1701).
• Karamon of Ueno Tōshō-gÅ« 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)

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