The senior Iranian cleric died after cardiac arrest on Tuesday morning.
Born in February 1919 in Iran’s central city of Golpaygan, Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani became a Grand Ayatollah and a Marji' (source to follow or religious reference), a title given to the highest level of Shiite authorities.
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, he was elected to the Assembly of Experts and was a member of the Constitutional Council.
The late cleric has written scores of religious books in Persian and Arabic, some of which have won annual national book awards.