title: 1640s in architecture
text: # 1640s in architecture
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, is under construction, probably by Ustad Ahmad Lahori, to a commission by Shah Jahan. The mosque and jawab in the complex are completed in 1643.
  * 1640
     * Børsen in Copenhagen, designed by Lorentz and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger and begun in 1619, is completed.
     * 59–60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (later known as Lindsey House), probably designed by Inigo Jones and begun about 1638, is completed.
     * Butterwalk, Dartmouth, England, is completed.
  * 1641
     * Tron Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by John Mylne, is dedicated.
     * The Mauritshuis at The Hague in the Dutch Republic, designed by Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post, is completed.
  * 1645–1648 – Main structure of Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, is built.
  * 1646
     * The St. Mary Magdalene Chapel, Dingli, Malta, is rebuilt after the original chapel had collapsed.
     * Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan, Persia, is completed.
     * New Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, is begun to designs of 1636 by Christophe Gamard; it will not be completed until the later 18th century.
  * 1647 – The Changdeokgung in Seoul, Korea, is reconstructed.
  * 1648 – Buildings commissioned by Shah Jahan in India:
     * April 6: Red Fort, Delhi, is completed to designs by Ustad Ahmad Lahori.
     * Jama Mosque, Agra, is built.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1642 – Giovanni Barbara, Maltese architect and military engineer (died 1728)
  * c.1645 – William Winde, English gentleman architect (died 1722)
  * 1645: December 27 – Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, Swiss baroque architect working in Bavaria (died 1713)
  * 1646: April 16 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French baroque architect (died 1708)
  * 1647 – Henry Aldrich, English polymath and amateur architect (died 1710)
  * 1648 – Pietro Perti, Ticinese architect and sculptor working in Lithuania (died 1714)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1646: April 10 – Santino Solari, Italian-born architect working in Salzburg (born 1576)
  * 1647: August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born 1586/7)
  