Ardalan was born in Sanandaj, Qajar Iran and died in Sulaymaniyah, Ottoman Empire.

When the Qajar state conquered the Ardalan territory in the 19th century, she and her family left for the Baban principality centered in Sulaymaniyah.

Her 200th birthday was celebrated recently in a festival in Hewler (Erbil), in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, where her statue was unveiled in a ceremony.

Over one hundred scientific and cultural figures from across the world attended the congress in Iraqi Kurdistan, in which thirty articles in Kurdish, Persian, English, and Arabic were presented about the life and works of Mastoureh Ardalan.

[citation needed] A statue of Ardalan by Iranian sculptor Hadi Zia-dini now stands in Sanandaj, Iran.